A federal judge in Newark has dismissed the vast majority of suits in multidistrict litigation over transplants of body parts stolen from corpses, saying the plaintiffs did not show a likelihood of contracting disease.
U.S. District Judge William Martini Jr.’s order applies to about 325 plaintiffs who tested negative for disease six months after their transplants and those given tissue that had been stored at room temperature for 30 or more days.
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