Other than the Little case in Texas, only one other appellate level court has, to the knowledge of Appellant, even considered the issue of defining the limits of parental power to consent to surgical procedures. That other court was the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Again, the Court was dealing with whether or not a guardian could consent to a surgical procedure to remove an organ from a healthy child and have that organ transplanted to an ill child. The surgical procedure had no medical treatment value for the healthy child. This again, is the same rule Appellant asks this Court to Rule.
Medical treatment defines the limits of a parent's power to consent.
Black's Law Dictionary . It was the function of the Court of Appeal to set forth a clear rule defining the limit of the legal power of parents to consent to surgical procedures by setting the limit at medical treatment. Appellant contends that this is not, and should not be, the law of the State of California. The California Supreme Court denied our Petition for Review. This was done without comment as to why it was denied.