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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Litigation Update
Patients, research volunteers, professional colleagues and the news media frequently ask Dr. Catalona about the current
status of the litigation of Washington University (WU) vs. his patients and him, concerning the blood and tissue samples he collected during his tenure at WU.
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Update on Litigation Concerning Research Samples
Dr. Catalona's patients and research participants in his studies conducted when he was at Washington University in St. Louis
continue to ask about the status of the litigation in the dispute between Washington University (WU) and Dr. Catalona over the samples that the patients
and participants entrusted to Dr. Catalona for use in his collaborative research program.
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Update on Litigation Concerning Research Samples
Patients and research participants continue to ask Dr. Catalona for updates about the status of the litigation over custody
and control of the research samples he collected at Washington University.
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Update on Litigation Concerning Research Samples
Dr. Catalona’s patients and research participants in his studies continue to ask about the status of the litigation in the
dispute between Washington University in St. Louis (WU) and Dr. Catalona regarding the samples that Dr. Catalona’s patients and participants entrusted
to him for his research program while at WU.
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Litigation Update: Spring 2006
Dr. Catalona's patients and research participants from his tenure at Washington University in St. Louis (WU) continue to
inquire about the status of the litigation in the dispute between WU and Dr. Catalona regarding the samples that Dr. Catalona's patients and participants
entrusted to him for his research program.
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Litigation Update (as of July 31, 2006)
Dr. Catalona's patients and research participants from his time at Washington University (WU) in St. Louis continue to
inquire about the status of the litigation in the dispute between Washington University and Dr. Catalona regarding the samples that Dr. Catalona's
patients and participants entrusted to him for his research program.* In March 2006, the District Court Rendered an opinion and Dr. Catalona provides
a summary of the case and his views on the opinion.
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