Legal Opinion
Rollin Paul Goodman, in His Individual Capacity v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 2002No. 01-35240PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOULD, Circuit Judge.
This case, brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346 and 2671, raises jurisdictional and substantive issues. JoAnn Goodman, who was diagnosed with incurable melanoma cancer, participated in a clinical research study at the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and died from a toxic reaction to one of the medicines used in the study. Her husband, Rollin Paul Goodman (“Paul Goodman”), filed an unsuccessful administrative complaint for the wrongful death of his wife. Thereafter, he filed a federal complaint under the FTCA alleging medical…
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