Re: settlement - ludicrous!

["Elizabeth M. Brackett" <brackett@bright.net>]

I don't agree with the settlement, but I wanted to point out that it says
"all BUT one has died," not ONLY one has died.

At 05:52 PM 5/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>What is wrong with our judicial system? This case, and the 
>aftermath is a mockery. Granted, there is an issue of consent, but 
>where is the damage, and if one considers non-information as 
>damage, what about proportionality? From the article regarding the 
>settlement:
>
>Article: 
>All but one of the plaintiffs has died. The defendants never 
>conceded that the experiments contributed to the deaths of the 
>patients, who already had advanced cases of cancer when they 
>underwent experimentation.  
>
>Observation:
>These individuals all had advanced cases of cancer. Yet only one 
>has died, a woman at the ripe old age of 82.
>

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