
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 24, 1994                   TAG: 9404240090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

CLASS ACTION DENIED IN HEMOPHILIACS' SUIT

A state judge has refused to allow hemophiliacs who were infected with the AIDS virus through blood-clotting products to sue as a group.

The lawsuit, the first attempt at class-action status on the issue in the nation, claims makers of blood-clotting products and blood banks could have prevented transmission of the fatal virus by heat-treating blood.

State Superior Court Judge C. Judson Hamlin, who denied the class action motion Friday, said they didn't qualify for class-action status. - Associated Press

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