Legal Opinion
LaLonde ex rel. M.L. v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 28, 2014No. 2013-5088PublishedCited by 285 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge PROST. Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge NEWMAN.
PROST, Circuit Judge.
This case, brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l to -34, as amended (the “Vaccine Act”), presents the question whether petitioner Cynthia LaLonde, on behalf of her son M.L., has proven by a preponderance of the evidence that M.L.’s diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (“DTaP”) vaccination caused a focal brain injury. The special master found that although M.L.’s DTaP vaccination likely caused his initial anaphylactic…
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