Legal Opinion
Varga v. United States
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided March 25, 1983No. C79-309PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WILLIAM K. THOMAS, Senior District Judge.
Andrew Varga sues the United States of America for damages by reason of a swine flu immunization he received on October 31, 1976. Plaintiff Varga claims that the swine flu immunization caused him to contract Guillain-Barre syndrome on February 16-17, 1977.
Plaintiff Varga’s case is one of the personal injury and wrongful death actions with a genesis in the National Influenza Immunization Program of 1976. These actions were consolidated by the Multi-District Litigation Panel and assigned for pretrial purposes to Judge Gerhard Gesell…
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- International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality LeagueSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- De Kruif v. FliemanMichigan Supreme Court · 1902
3Cited by1 opinion
- Benedict v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. Ohio · 1986