Legal Opinion
Joseph Osborn and Pamela Osborn, Individually and as Father and Mother and Guardians Ad Litem of Shawna Osborn v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1990No. 89-5349PublishedCited by 1,093 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Joseph and Pamela Osborn, individually and as parents and guardians ad litem of their daughter, Shawna Osborn, appeal from the dismissal of their federal tort claim action asserting that a United States Air Force clinic negligently administered a diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccination, causing Shawna to develop seizures and neurological injury. The sole issue in the case is when did the Osborns, and more specifically Pamela Osborn, first have sufficient knowledge of Shawna’s injury and its cause so as to trigger the running of the two-year statute…
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