Laetrile : The Legal Controversy (Rutherford v. U.S.).

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cancer.
• Drugs.
• Judge-made law.

Physical Description:

• 1 online resource (4 pages) : digital, PDF file
• monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1979-1980.

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• text file
• PDF

Summary:

Discusses the Supreme Court decision in Rutherford volumes U.S., which ruled that Federal law permitted the Food and Drug Administration's ban on laetrile as a "new drug" in its application to terminally-ill cancer patients, but remanded for further consideration the question of whether the ban was invalid for legal or constitutional reasons.

Notes:

• CRS Report.
• Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Laetrile: The Legal Controversy (Rutherford v. U.S.)

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