Corrected: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in the case of an HIV-positive pilot that a Watergate-era privacy law does not authorize suits for mental or emotional distress when the government violates its provisions. The court ruled against plaintiff Stanmore Cooper in a 5-3 opinion (PDF). Jus ...

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Embryonic stem cell research has been fraught with legal uncertainties since its inception. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells obtained from embryonic tissue in a process that usually results in the destruction of the embryo. Once an embryonic stem cell line is established however it ...

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Plaintiffs agreed Friday to a court-mediated deal with the government to settle a damages suit over the contraction of hepatitis B caused by repeated use of needles in group vaccinations. On Tuesday Prime Minister Naoto Kan will acknowledge the government's responsibility for the infections an ...

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WASHINGTON The Obama administration argued Monday that Guatemalans unknowingly exposed to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s cannot sue the United States no matter how shameful and unethical the studies were. In its first response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of th ...

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The Obama administration faces a deadline of early next year to respond to a sweeping new class-action lawsuit alleging that U.S. public health officials in the years after World War II deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners soldiers and psychiatric patients with venereal diseas ...

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WASHINGTON March 9 (UPI) -- Attorneys for 700 Guatemalans infected with syphilis in a test say they'll bring a class action suit against the U.S. government unless it offers a settlement.

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The United States government will be hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who were infected with syphilis unless it offers a way to settle claims before Friday the plaintiffs' attorneys said.