Baxter et al v. Montana
Montanans sue for right to aid in dying

This case contends that competent terminally ill Montanans are guaranteed privacy and dignity by the Montana State Constitution. These guarantees protect the right of such patients to control their own death by obtaining medications from their physician to enable the patient to achieve a peaceful death, if they so choose.

Robert Baxter, 75, a retired truck driver from Billings, and Steven Stoelb, 53, a former logger and forest technician from Livingston, are represented by Mark S. Connell, a Missoula attorney and Kathryn Tucker, Legal Affairs Director for Compassion & Choices. Baxter suffers from lymphocytic leukemia and Stoelb has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

The State filed its answer to the lawsuit on December 4, 2007.

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Baxter v MT Complaint 10-17-07