Facts
- A doctor develops a new drug from the discarded cells of a patient
- The patient sues
Issue
- Can there be property rights in body parts?
Held
- The right to privacy and dignity is already protected by informed consent
- There are not property rights for ethical, religious etc reasons
- The court feared that because conversion is a strict liability tort, it may open up too many law suits
-- Download Moore v Regents of University of California (1990) 51 Cal 3d 120 as PDF --

