Legal Opinion
Pafford ex rel. Pafford v. Secretary of Department of Health & Human Services
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided January 25, 2005No. 01-0165 VPublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
BLOCK, Judge.
I. Introduction
This case is before the court under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act2 for review of the Special Master’s decision to deny petitioners’ claim for compensation. Young Richelle Pafford was diagnosed with systemic onset Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (“JRA”), also known as Still’s disease. Richelle’s condition is made all the more painful by the inability of modem medical science, especially given all of its recent spectacular advances, to understand the exact mechanism of the origin of JRA.
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- Debra Ann Knudsen, by Her Parents and Legal Guardians, Doris P. Knudsen and Dale Knudsen v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1994
- June Shyface and Patricia Shyface, as Legal Representatives of the Estate of Cheyenne Michael Shyface v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1999
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