On October 8, 2020, Not Dead Yet, National ADAPT, ADAPT of Texas and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network joined in a friend-of-the-court (“amicus”) brief filed by Texas attorney Michelle Hayes to support Tinslee Lewis and her mother’s case to maintain life support. The “strange bedfellows” amici groups include disability rights, religious and pro-life organizations. Tinslee […]
Contacts: Diane Coleman 708-420-0539 dcoleman@notdeadyet.org Adam Prizio 518-320-7100 (office) 603-518-4910 (cell) aprizio@cdrnys.org For Immediate Release: Disability rights groups applaud today’s New York Court of Appeals unanimous ruling announcing that “we reject plaintiffs’ argument that an individual has a fundamental constitutional right to aid-in-dying . . . . We also reject plaintiffs’ assertion that the State’s prohibition on assisted suicide […]
[Editor’s Note: The October 1, 2015 press release below is also available online in PDF format through PRWeb download here. The friend-of-the-court brief described in the release can be read here.] Not Dead Yet and Five Other National Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New Mexico Supreme Court in Assisted Suicide Case […]
[Editor’s Note: For a pdf formatted version of this press release, and link to the friend-of-the-court brief in Word format, go here.] On Friday May 23, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Not Dead Yet, and 12 other disability rights organizations filed an amicus brief in a case challenging the University of Wisconsin Hospital Center’s alleged […]
