"Now, Henrietta Lacks’ grandson, Ron Lacks, says Ultragenyx unjustly reaps some of the benefits of the wrongs against his grandmother," District Judge Deborah L. Boardman said. "Ultragenyx says it has done nothing wrong, and Lacks has no viable claim against it. Today, the court reaches one modest conclusion about this dispute: If what Lacks alleges is true, it is plausible that Ultragenyx is liable to Lacks for unjust enrichment."
May 21, 2024 at 03:56 PM
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An unjust enrichment filed by the grandson of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her consent and used in transformative medical research for decades, may proceed against pharmaceutical company Ultragenyx.
Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Baltimore County, Maryland, was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer in the 1950s. Without her knowledge, doctors cut out cervical tissue samples before she died from the disease in 1951.
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