Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Mr. Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Vacco was the Attorney General of New York from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1998. In 1994, Vacco defeated Karen Burstein, the Democratic nominee. One week before the election, Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari announced that Burstein was not qualified to serve as attorney general because she was a lesbian.
Dennis C. Vacco (born August 16, 1952) is an American lawyer and politician. He graduated with a B.A. from Colgate University in 1974, a J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School in 1978, and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1979.
Former New York State Attorney General, Dennis C. Vacco, is a Partner with Lippes Mathias and serves on the firm's Executive Committee and as the Government & State Attorneys General Investigations Practice Team Leader. Mr. Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Vacco focuses his practice on State Attorney General investigations as well as investigations by the United States Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Petitioners are various New York public officials. Respondents Timothy E. Quill, Samuel C. Klagsbrun, and Howard A. Grossman are physicians who practice in New York. They assert that although it would be "consistent with the standards of [their] medical practice [s]'' to prescribe lethal medication for "mentally competent, terminally ill patients'' who are suffering great pain and desire a doctor's help in taking their own lives, they are deterred from doing so by New York's ban on assisting suicide. App. 25-26. 3 Respondents, and three gravely ill patients who have since died, 4 sued the State's Attorney General in the United States District Court. They urged that because New York permits a competent person to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, and because the refusal of such treatment is "essentially the same thing'' as physician-assisted suicide, New York's assisted-suicide ban violates the Equal Protection Clause. Quill v. Koppell, 870 F.Supp. 78, 84-85 (S.D.N.Y.1994).
Thus, the Second Circuit erred in reading New York law as creating a "right to hasten death''; instead, the authorities cited by the court recognize a right to refuse treatment, and nowhere equate the exercise of this right with suicide. Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125, 129-130, 105 N.E. 92, 93 (1914), which contains Justice Cardozo's famous statement that " [e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body,'' was simply an informed-consent case. See also Rivers v. Katz, 67 N.Y.2d 485, 495, 504 N.Y.S.2d 74, 80, 495 N.E.2d 337, 343 (1986) (right to refuse antipsychotic medication is not absolute, and may be limited when "the patient presents a danger to himself''); Matter of Storar, 52 N.Y.2d 363, 377, n. 6, 438 N.Y.S.2d 266, 273, n. 6, 420 N.E.2d 64, 71, n. 6, cert. denied, 454 U.S. 858, 102 S.Ct. 309, 70 L.Ed.2d 153 (1981).
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I was elected as the Sixty-Second Attorney General of New York State in November of 1994. At the time of my election, I was the first lawyer from upstate New York elected to the position of Attorney General in over 75 years.
I was appointed to the position of United States Attorney by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the United States Senate in October of 1988. At the time of my appointment I was the youngest US Attorney in the nation.
I was appointed to the position of Assistant District Attorney by DA Edward Cosgrove upon my graduation from law school. In 1982 DA Richard Arcara promoted me to the position of Bureau Chief. During my nearly ten years in the DA's office I tried multiple murder indictments. I resigned this position to become US Attorney WDNY.