JONES

v.

PRESIDENT & DIRECTORS OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, INC.

Citator

Cited By (21 total)

• Pub. Health Tr. OF Dade Cnty. v. Wons, 541 So. 2d 96 (Fla. 1989)
  …ompelling state interest to the contrary, the law must protect her right to make that choice. GRIMES, J., concurs. . The dissent cites Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College, Inc., 331 F. 2d 1000 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 978, 84 S.Ct. 1883, 12 L.Ed.2d 746 (1964), in support of the position that the facts of the instant case would constitute an abandonment. That case is not very persuasive as it was a unique proceeding in which a single federal appellate judge entered an…

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• Satz v. Abe Perlmutter, 362 So. 2d 160 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978)
  …with Mr. Perlmutter’s expressed wishes. PROTECTION OF THIRD PARTIES Classically, this protection is exemplified in the case Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College, Inc., 118 U.S.App.D.C. 80, 331 F. 2d 1000, cert. denied, 377 U.S. 978, 84 S.Ct. 1883, 12 L.Ed.2d 746 (1964), where the patient, by refusing treatment, is said to be abandoning his minor child, which abandonment the State as par-ens patriae sought to prevent. We point out that Abe Perlmutter is 73, his family adult and…

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• In re Matter of Patricia Dubreuil, 629 So. 2d 819 (Fla. 1993)
  …mistake to let her expire because of the observance of her religious beliefs and leave these children motherless. I firmly place myself in the camp of In re President & Directors of Georgetown College, Inc., 331 F. 2d 1000 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 978, 84 S.Ct. . 1883, 12 L.Ed.2d 746 (1964), and In re Winthrop University Hospital, 128 Misc.2d 804, 490 N.Y.S.2d 996 (Sup.Ct.1985). Children need, and are entitled to have, their mothers; this need is sufficiently great to outweigh one’s free exercise…

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