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RIZZO v. UNITED STATES

No. 77C644.

432 F.Supp. 356 (1977)

Joseph RIZZO, a/k/a Giuseppe Rizzo, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

April 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glabman, Rubenstein, Rheingold & Rothbart by Morris Rubenstein, Brooklyn, N.Y., for plaintiff Rizzo.

David G. Trager, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y. by Carl I. Stewart, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendants.

COSTANTINO, District Judge.

This action was commenced by an order to show cause requesting injunctive relief.

Plaintiff is dying from cancer of the pancreas. His physician has testified that this cancer is not susceptible to any treatment available in the United States and that in his estimation plaintiff has three to four months to live. As a result plaintiff wishes to have his physician administer to him a substance known as B17/Laetrile (hereinafter Laetrile...

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