# Rodgers v. Danforth

> Supreme Court of Missouri · October 3, 1972 · 486 S.W.2d 258

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9646609

## Case

- **Full name:** Samuel U. RODGERS, M.D., Et Al., Respondents, v. John C. DANFORTH, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Et Al., Appellants, and Infant Doe and Guardian Ad Litem M. H. Backer, Jr., M.D., Intervenor-Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** October 3, 1972
- **Citations:** 486 S.W.2d 258; 1972 Mo. LEXIS 845
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Finch
- **Judges:** Donnelly, Holman, Morgan, Finch, Bardgett, Seiler
- **Cited by:** 11 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

FINCH, Chief Justice
(concurring).
Pending a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in the two cases restored to its calendar for reargument, referred to in the principal opinion, I am unwilling at this time to anticipate its decision and conclude that it, in effect, will hold statutes such as ours unconstitutional. Particularly is this true in view of the stipulation by the parties to which the principal opinion makes reference. Consequently, I concur in the result reached by the principal opinion.

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