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Irradiation Limitation Remains Unsettled
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
by James Quigley
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 25
By James Quigley
Filed under:
Medical,
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Male Reproductive,
Limitations,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Oregon.
The U.S. court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that factual issues, as to when a former prisoner was, or should have been, aware of his injuries from radiation experiments, precluded summary judgment on statute of limitation grounds. The Court further held that some of the …
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