A Toronto judge will decide whether a case should continue involving a man who was declared brain dead last year and whose family insisted his death certificate be revoked.

Shalom Ouanounou’s family received an injunction to keep the 25-year-old man on life support while they argued in court that Canadian medical guidelines should have a religious exemption for those who don’t believe in the notion of brain death. The family argued he wasn’t dead under the laws of Orthodox Judaism.

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Ouanounou, who was hospitalized after a severe asthma attack, was kept on life support for nearly five more months, until his heart failed in March and his death was recognized by his family, the CBC reported at the time.

On Monday, Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey asked all parties involved to make written submissions on whether the issue is now moot given that Ouanounou’s death has been recognized by his family.

Parties are to make submissions by May 15.