Judge Dismisses Part Of Suit Over Challenges To Man’s Health Care Directive

Mealey's (December 17, 2018, 10:34 AM EST) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Dec. 10 dismissed a woman’s claims that a county routinely engaged in policy that unconstitutionally challenged elderly individuals’ advanced health care directives (AHCDs), finding that challenging an AHCD is not unconstitutional and that she was unable to adequately allege that the county trained its employees to mislead courts (Judith C. Magney v. County of Humboldt, et al., No. 17-cv-2983, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 208142)...