In an 82-page opinion yesterday, a federal judge permitted the claims of more than 800 Guatemalan victims of non-consensual human experimentation, represented by Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Malarkey & Perlin , to proceed against Defendants, Johns Hopkins, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The Plaintiffs’ class action claims arise from human experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s. The victims, including children, soldiers, prisoners, and individuals in asylums, among others, were intentionally infected with syphilis and other venereal diseases in order to study how those diseases were . . . Continue Reading
In the last two weeks, Volkswagen has admitted that it sold 11 million cars with so-called “Clean Diesel” engines worldwide that were equipped with software allowing them to cheat emissions tests. Below are five things you need to know: What did Volkswagen do? Independent automobile researchers report that Volkswagen sold 11 million diesel cars that produced as much as 40 times the E.P.A. allowed limit of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to respiratory problems including asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema. . . . Continue Reading