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Legal Citation: 521 U.S. 793 (1997)

Petitioners
Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of New York, et al.

Respondents
Timothy E. Quill, Samuel C. Klagsbrun, Howard A. Grossman

Petitioners' Claim
That a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit invalidating a New York State statute banning physician-assisted suicide was incorrect.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioners
Barbara Gott Billet, Solicitor General; Daniel Smirlock, assistant Attorney General; Michael S. Popkin, Assistant Attorney General

Chief Lawyer for Respondents
Laurence H. Tribe, David J Burman, Carla A. Kerr, Peter J. Rubin, Kari Anne Smith, Kathryn L. Tucker

Justices for the Court
Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William H. Rehnquist (writing for the Court), Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, John Paul Stevens,...