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Medical Monitoring Suit Settled for $675,000
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 18
Oregon State Prisoners' Class Action Victory
Filed under:
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Civil Procedure,
Settlements,
State Law Claims.
Location:
Oregon.
A class action lawsuit by Oregon prisoners involved in radiation experiments from 1963 to 1973 and still living as of December 31, 1997, who were not treated under Oregon's Medical Monitoring Statute (MMS) was settled for $675,000 in damages, attorneys' fees, costs and expenses.
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