The issue focused in part on the new law requiring doctors to check patients for cancer and other diseases before they are allowed to give them lethal treatment. Juris say that had a significant effect on the health care system because many of these patients would have been prescribed other forms of care or would have died if they had been given care at all.


In addition, the requirement that all laws require a prior court approval may have had a disproportionate impact on minorities and the poor. Criminal cases involving possession of drugs or