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Physician-Assisted Suicide and the New York State Constitution.

On September 7, 2017, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled on the most significant state constitutional case that it had been presented in several years. In Myers v. Schneiderman, the Court unanimously rejected a request to legalize physician-assisted suicide ("PAS"). This article will examine the background and the legal grounds of that historic ruling, as well as some reflections on our involvement in the case.