To Joe or anyone, ? about Court of Appeals

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There was a ruling in the US Court of Appeals on 5/2 ( the case was Abigail Alliance versus Eschenbach )that said that the FDA must allow terminal patients ( ie those with no other options and less than a year to live ) the same access to experimental drugs that have been proven safe as other patients. Not doing so will infringe on their right to choose and is a violation of part of the 5th amendment. This would be terrific for people who cannot enter anything but early phase 1 trials where they are looking at dose and toxicity not whether the drugs work because they are told they have had too much treatment.

I am told that the FDA has filed yet another appeal on this.

Does anyone know about this and have any ideas how to make use of it? I am told the ruling is tenuous pending the appeal.