April 18, 2022
A Maryland federal judge on Monday freed Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation against a $1 billion suit filed by Guatemalans who claimed that the institutions participated in controversial syphilis experiments on them in the 1940s, finding two doctors involved in the experiments didn't act on their behalf.
August 28, 2019
A federal magistrate judge in Maryland has refused to sanction attorneys for alleged experimentation victims in a $1 billion suit accusing Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Rockefeller Foundation of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala, saying it makes sense to look at the request after a merits decision.
May 28, 2019
Attorneys for alleged victims of controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala are urging a Maryland federal judge not to sanction them in a $1 billion suit accusing Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Rockefeller Foundation of participating in the studies, saying they've whittled down the case to ensure only viable claims move forward.
April 10, 2019
Johns Hopkins University and Bristol-Myers Squibb want sanctions imposed in a $1 billion lawsuit against them over experiments in which Guatemalan citizens were allegedly infected with syphilis without consent, saying Tuesday the lawyers behind the suit have exhibited a "pattern of litigation abuse."
January 04, 2019
Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday.