Legal Opinion
Sword v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided June 10, 1999No. 90-1491VPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BASKIR, Judge.
This case arises under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-l et seq. (West Supp.1997), as amended (the Vaccine Act). The case is before the Court pursuant to Appendix J of the rules of this Court on Defendant’s Motion for Review of the Special Master’s decision of December 29, 1998, awarding compensation to Petitioners for the vaccine-related death of their daughter.
The Government has raised four objections: First, that the Special Master’s decision is not supported by the factual record, insofar as it is based on a medical explanation not…
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- Ryan Burns, by His Mother and Next Friend, Donna Burns v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Snyder ex rel. Snyder v. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2009
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- Rupert v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2003
- Fadelalla v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 1999
- Hopkins v. Secretary of Department of Health & Human ServicesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2008
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