Michael Lampe and Carolyn Lampe, Individually and as Next Friends of Rachael Lampe, a Minor v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

While I commend the majority for its dedication to our deferential standard of review in Vaccine Act cases, see Hodges v. Secretary of Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., 9 F.3d 958 (Fed.Cir.1993) (Plager, J.); Bradley v. Secretary of Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., 991 F.2d 1570 (Fed.Cir.1993) (Plager, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), even under the most rigorous application of that standard the decision of the Court of Federal Claims in this case requires reversal; the Special Master’s decision, left standing by that court, is both arbitrary and capricious, and not in accordance…