Evelyn HEINRICH on behalf of her Husband George Heinrich, Henry M. Sienkewicz, Jr., on behalf of his Mother Eileen Rose Sienkewicz, Rosemary Gualtieri on behalf of her Father Joseph Mayne, Walter Carl Van Dyke on behalf of his Father Walter Carmen Van Dyke and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
William H. SWEET, M.D., Trustee of the Lee Edward Farr Trust dated 1/11/71, as amended, The Estate of Lee Edward Farr, M.D., Associated Universities, Inc., Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The United States of America, Defendants.
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August 16, 1999.
August 16, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Raymond J. Heslin, Gold, Farrell & Marks, New York City, Anthony Z. Roisman, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, John K. McGuire, Jr., McGuire & McGuire, Worcester, MA, Anthony Z. Roisman, Lyme, NH, for plaintiffs.
Raymond J. Kenney, Christopher J. Maley, Gail A. Anderson, Martin, Magnuson, McCarthy & Kenney, Boston, MA, for William H. Sweet, M.D., Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., defendants.
William Shields, Sarah G. Hunt, Day, Berry & Howard, Boston, MA, Kevin T. Van Wart, Jerome A. Karnick, Marc J. Zwillinger, Jonathan Silverman, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Lee Howard Farr, M.D., Associated Universities, Inc., defendants.
Francis C. Lynch, Lori B. Silver, Constantine Athanas, Palmer & Dodge, Boston, MA, Owen Gallagher, Garrett Harris, Sally A. VanderWeele, Gallagher & Gallagher, P.C., Charlestown, MA, for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, defendant.
Burke M. Wong, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for USA, defendant.
Herbert E. Milstein, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, for Walter Carl Van Dyke, Representative of the Estate of Walter Carmen Van Dyke, plaintiff.
United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
I. Introduction.
This cause of action arises out of experiments conducted on individuals under the care of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brookhaven National Laboratory in the 1950's and 1960's. In the Second Amended Complaint (the "Complaint"), the plaintiffs (collectively, the "Plaintiffs") allege that various doctors, institutions, and the United States government conspired to conduct...
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