Court Blocks Transfer of Right-to-Die Patient
MT. VERNON, Mo. — The father of a brain-damaged woman was barred by an appeals court Friday from moving her to Minnesota, where her life-support could be detached with less legal strife.
The Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that Christine Busalacchi, 20, could not be moved from a state hospital until the panel could review the case. A hearing date was not scheduled.
The injunction supersedes a lower court decision that allowed Pete Busalacchi to take his daughter from the Missouri Rehabilitation Center, where a recent landmark right-to-die case was centered.
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