Kelly v Houston Methodist Hospital – Amicus Brief on TADA Constitutionality

Oral arguments in Kelly v Houston Methodist Hospital are in only 10 days.  But the Court of Appeals in Houston just received an amicus brief in support of the hospital. Interestingly, this brief is on behalf of some organizations one might not think would support the "medical futility" section of the Texas Advance Directives Act – Texas Alliance for Life, Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, Texans for Life Coalition, Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, Texas Alliance for Patient Access, Texas Medical Association, Texas Osteopathic Medical Association, Texas Hospital Association, And LeadingAge Texas. The main arguments are Texas’s dispute-resolution statute was negotiated by a diverse array of stakeholders. Dispute-resolution laws are necessary to maintain the integrity of the medical profession Texas’s statutory medical-futility procedure only rarely contradicts a patient’s wish for…

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