THE PEOPLE ex rel. XAVIER BECERRA, as Attorney General, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Respondent; SANG-HOON AHN et al., Real Parties in Interest., 29 Cal. App. 5th 486

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HOLDINGS: [1]-Individual physicians did not establish third party standing to challenge the End of Life Option Act, Health & Saf. Code, §§ 443-443.22, (legalizing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill) on behalf of terminally ill patients because there was no commonality of interest between doctors seeking to prevent assisted suicide and patients wanting to request assisted suicide, and no injury as to patients not wanting assisted suicide, who could simply not request it; [2]-The physicians did not establish personal standing because they were free to refuse to participate in the required process if a patient with a terminal disease wanted aid in dying, and, under Health & Saf. Code, § 443.14, they could not be sanctioned for refusing to make a referral.