Berta Salceda, as the Legal Representative of Her Daughter, Maria Isabel Salceda v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Berta Salceda appeals on behalf of her minor daughter, Maria Isabel Salceda, from an order of the Court of Federal Claims that affirmed the decision of a special master denying compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l to -34 (the Vaccine Act). Salceda v. Secretary of Dep’t of Health & Human Services, 33 Fed.Cl. 164 (1995). The special master and the Court of Federal Claims held that because Maria Salceda suffered her alleged vaccine-related injury before November 15, 1988, and because a civil action was filed on her behalf after that date, she…