( March 4, 2025, 1:20 PM EST) -- BALTIMORE — A Maryland statute requiring a foreign corporation that does intrastate business in Maryland to register with the state or otherwise forfeit its ability to assert a statute of limitations defense is constitutional, a Maryland federal judge held March 3, rejecting a pharmaceutical company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in a case filed 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 various medical developments....