research-ethics

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-204	Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2025-08-20	Denied	Amici (1)Response Waived	due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action	Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or…
19-6443	Amro A. Elansari v. University of Pennsylvania	Third Circuit	2019-10-29	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-funding informed-consent research-ethics research-experiments standing	Whether the University of Pennsylvania, federally funded, is subject to federal jurisdiction for funding that using human research experiments without…
18-97	Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC	California	2018-07-23	Denied		clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics	Whether a drug company which is medically monitoring the participants of its drug study has a duty under federal regulations to exercise its independe…