SPENCELEY v. M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

Civil Action No. H-96-1403.

938 F.Supp. 398 (1996)

Susan SPENCELEY and Seven Other Patients, Plaintiffs, v. M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

June 18, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Jaffe, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Robert Dan Fontaine, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for Defendant M.D. Anderson.


ORDER

LYNN N. HUGHES, District Judge.

1. On the court's own motion, this case is narrowed to a single issue. 2. The former patient-participants of the old research project treating lymphoma at the M.D. Anderson do not have a relation to it that allows them to sue over its discontinuation. No past or potential patient-participant in a research project has standing to sue to compel a new project. 3. The essence of research is that no current...

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