Benedict v. United States

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND DECISION

BATCHELDER, District Judge.

This cause came on for trial to the Court sitting without a jury, on the complaint of Virginia and Leonard Benedict against the United States, seeking damages for injuries suffered as a result of Virginia Benedict’s inoculation for swine flu. This case is one of the many “swine flu” cases filed throughout the country following the mass immunization program undertaken by the United States government in 1976. In this particular case, the government has conceded that the plaintiff contracted Guillain-Barre Syndrome (hereinafter GBS),…