Legal Opinion
In Re Cincinnati Radiation Litigation
District Court, S.D. Ohio
Decided January 11, 1995No. C-1-94-126PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
BECKWITH, District Judge.
The Complaint in this much-publicized matter alleges that the Defendants engaged in the design and implementation of experiments from 1960 to 1972 to study the effects of massive doses of radiation on human beings in preparation for a possible nuclear war. The experiments utilized terminal cancer patients who were not informed of the consequences of their participation nor, indeed, informed of the existence or purpose of the experiments. The Complaint alleges that most of the patients selected were African-American and, in the vernacular of the time,…
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