Health Providers Lack Standing To Challenge Constitutionality Of End Of Life Act

(April 18, 2017, 9:09 AM EDT) -- RUTLAND, Vt. — A Vermont federal judge on April 5 held that physicians and other health providers lack jurisdictional standing to challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act in the absence of any possibility of imminent harm (Vermont Alliance For Ethical Healthcare, Inc., et al. v. William K. Hoser, in his official capacity as chair of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice, et al., No. 5:16-cv-205, D. Vt., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51699)....