A U.S. private foundation that loaned a physician on its staff to an international agency that conducted nonconsensual human medical experiments cannot be held liable for the actions of the loaned executive when it did not have control over his activities, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed. The Court has upheld the earlier decision of a federal District Court in Maryland holding that the foundation could not be liable because the physician was not acting as its agent in conducting the experiments. More than 840 victims and relatives of victims brought suit under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) against Johns Hopkins, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company...