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Patients and
research participants continue to ask Dr.
Catalona about the details of the litigation
concerning the blood and tissue samples
that they entrusted to him for his research
program when he was at Washington University. These
samples have become the focus of a legal
dispute that has lasted more than three
years. (Click here to see the most recent Litigation Update
from the Fall, 2007 issue of Quest.)
Dr. Catalona’s Views and Conclusions:
The legal battle lasting nearly 5
years between Washington
University (WU) and Dr.
William Catalona over ownership of
blood and tissue samples has now
come to an end at the U.S. Supreme
Court when the Court declined to take
the case
Dr. Catalona’s Views and Conclusions
Petitions
for writ of certiorari filed with Supreme Court:
Appeal
Briefs On Behalf of Dr. Catalona filed to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Eight Circuit:
Dr. Catalona’s Response to Public Statements
Posted by
Washington University Regarding His Dispute with WU Over
Who Has Jurisdiction of Prostate Tissue and Blood Samples.
Opening
Brief for Appellant-Defendents Richard
Ward, et al.
This document is the initial appeal brief filed by patient/research
participants of Dr. William J. Catalona.
Reply Brief of Appellant-Defendants Richard Ward, et al
This document is the patient/research participants’ (RPs) brief in response
to the initial brief filed by Washington University in the Eighth Circuit. The
RPs reply brief begins: “…Richard Ward and the other research participants
(the RPs) allowed Dr. Catalona to take custody of their blood and tissue samples
for the purpose of assisting research into the genetic causes of prostate cancer…the
samples are also the literal flesh and blood of the RPs, who have a powerful
interest in ensuring that materials taken from their bodies are used in ways
that are not ethically objectionable to them….”
Opening
Brief for Defendant-Appellant, William
J. Catalona, MD
This document is the initial brief filed by Dr. Catalona to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Reply
Brief of Defendant-Appellant, William
J. Catalona, MD
This document is the brief in response
to the initial brief filed by Washington
University in the Eighth Circuit. William J. Catalona’s reply brief begins: “…Washington
University seeks to force upon this Court a false choice between equally extreme
positions…”
Amicus
Brief of People’s Medical Society
This document is a friend of the court brief filed on behalf of Dr. Catalona
and the patient/research participants by a patients rights group.
Amicus
Brief of Us Too, International
This document is a friend of the court
brief filed on behalf of Dr. Catalona
and the patient/research participants by a prostate cancer survivors’group.
Body Snatchers by Michael Crichton (reprinted from Wall Street Journal with permission of the author. All rights reserved)
Michael Crichton writes about Dr. Catalona and his patients’ legal fight to regain Dr. Catalona’s prostate cancer tissue collection for his and his collaborators research.
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