Background
Baxter was born in Passaic, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University Law School 1983.
Baxter was born in Passaic, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University Law School 1983.
Rutgers University.
In the landmark case, 144 New Jersey 269 (1996) the New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the only jury verdict in the country finding that the blood bankers were negligent and concern over the cost of donor testing caused his client to be infected from contaminated blood. The evidence from the Snyder trial helped fuel the Congressional Investigation by the Subcommittee of Blood Safety into the Federal Food and Drug Administration"s regulators and blood bankers that resulted in people getting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome tainted blood in the early 1980s. Makhijan, 244 New Jersey Super 281 (App Division 1990) which defined the rights of people infected by contaminated blood to sue the blood bankers.