(December 30, 2020, 2:26 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A medical center that refused to provide further treatment to a terminally ill patient following a committee meeting on the ethics and medical value of continued care told the U.S. Supreme Court in a Dec. 23 reply brief that the nation’s high court needs to determine that a safe harbor provision in the state’s Advance Directives Act is constitutional and that it was not taking a state action by denying additional care to the patient (Cook Children’s Medical Center v. T.L., a minor, et al., No. 20-651, U.S. Sup.)....