Legal Opinion
June Shyface and Patricia Shyface, as Legal Representatives of the Estate of Cheyenne Michael Shyface v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 14, 1999No. 19-1837PublishedCited by 585 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
June and Patricia Shyfaee, grandmother and mother of Cheyenne Michael Shyfaee, appeal the judgment of the United States Court of Federal Claims 1 denying compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 42 U.S.C. ’300aa-l et seq., for the death of Cheyenne. Because the Shyfaces established that Cheyenne’s death was a vaccine injury in terms of ’300aa-ll(e)(l)(C)(ii), we reverse.
BACKGROUND
Cheyenne was born on February 8, 1993. He received a combination Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (DPT) vaccine on April 1, 1993. His mother and grandmother testified as to the…
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