Legal Opinion
Griffin v. United States
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided November 7, 1972No. Civ. A. 39099PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
NEWCOMER, District Judge.
On October 27, 1963, plaintiff, Mary Jane Griffin, participated in a mass campaign to eradicate the dreaded disease of poliomyelitis sponsored by. the Montgomery County Medical Society, by swallowing a dose of Sabin live virus oral polio vaccine. Just over a month later, Mary Jane Griffin lay near death in a coma at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. She emerged from that coma a permanent quadriplegic. In this suit, it is urged that the United States is liable to Mrs. Griffin and her husband, Richard Griffin, for her tragic condition under the Federal…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Dalehite v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Indian Towing Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Clifford Gowdy v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Ernest J. Hendry v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Dahlstrom v. ShrumSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Richard J. Griffin and Mary Jane Griffin, His Wife v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
- Reyes v. Wyeth LaboratoriesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Blessing v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1978
- Glynn Richard Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.District Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1979
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