( February 17, 2026, 11:20 AM EST) -- BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge in a Feb. 16 paperless order approved a joint stipulation to dismiss with prejudice a pharmaceutical company that was sued by the family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose medical tissue was taken without her consent in 1951 to create the first immortalized human cell line that has been used in medical developments from the polio vaccine to in vitro fertilization....