Ruled that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide
State supreme courts are increasingly a venue for debate over history’s role in constitutional interpretation.
Massachusetts’s high court rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s narrow approach to determining fundamental rights in favor of a comprehensive analysis that considers evolving equality norms.
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