Bloch v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services

Pro se; Vaccine Act; Dismissal for Failure to Prosecute; Failure to Follow Court Orders

OPINION 1

FIRESTONE, Senior Judge.

This vaccine injury case comes before the court on petitioners’ motion for review of the special master’s October 2, 2015 decision dismissing the petition of pro se petitioners Robert R. Bloch, Jr. and Kerry M. Bloch, on behalf of their minor child D.J.B. (“petitioners”), for “fail[ure] to prosecute or prove this ease.” Bloch v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., No. 03-468V, 2015 WL 6511457, at *1 (Fed.Cl. Oct. 2, 2015). For the reasons discussed below, petitioners’ motion for…