The companies involved declined to comment Wednesday.
The charge against Hardaway was dropped when the woman involved declined to cooperate further with prosecutors.
When contacted by the Guardian, the pathologist involved declined to comment.
Representatives of the companies involved declined to comment on the record.
Those involved declined to disclose the size of the stakes sold or the value of the transaction.
That suggests that the parties may be working out a settlement, although the companies and lawyers involved declined to comment.
But in their public statements on Friday, the governments involved declined to discuss the substance of the Iranian letter.
All the state agencies involved declined requests for interviews with officials; the public defender's office and the attorney general's office answered some written questions.
But the authors of the IPCC chapter involved declined to evaluate the scenarios they looked at in terms of whether they thought they were plausible, let alone likely.
The doctors involved declined to discuss the details of the case, although one, Dr. Julio Ortiz, said: "I don't know what legal implications are involved here for the hospital, for the doctors, for the nurses.
