Legal Opinion
Flanagan v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided November 6, 2000No. 90-1126VPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MILLER, Judge.
Petitioner challenges the special master’s denial of compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l-34 (1994 & Supp. IV 1998) (the “Vaccine Act”), on the basis that the special master abused her discretion in finding that the infant did not develop chronic epilepsy at the time of her vaccination and that the special master erred by imposing an evidentiary burden on petitioner to establish that the infant’s symptoms following vaccina*170tion were of “neurological significance.” Argument is deemed unnecessary. The court sustains the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Debra Ann Knudsen, by Her Parents and Legal Guardians, Doris P. Knudsen and Dale Knudsen v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1994
- Melissa Hines, on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, Amber Sevier v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1991
- Michael Lampe and Carolyn Lampe, Individually and as Next Friends of Rachael Lampe, a Minor v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2000
- Lisa Munn, Personal Representative of the Estate of Chelsea Vukelich v. The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1992
- Alisa Bradley and Ronald Bradley, Parents and Next Friends of Rachel Bradley v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Rupert v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2003
- Gardner-Cook v. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2003
- Robert Lee Turner and Sandra Kay Turner, as Legal Representatives on Behalf of Robert Cleveland Turner v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Veronica Flanagan, as Parent and Next Friend of Ashley Flanagan v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2001
- Turner v. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2001
- Berg v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2022
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