Doug Paluck and Rhonda Paluck, as Parents and Natural Guardians on Behalf of Their Minor Son, Karl Paluck v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Vaccine case; petitioners’ challenge to a special master’s failure to act on a remanded vaccine ease within the statutorily specified time; 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-12(e)(2)(C); absence of mandatory remedy; analogy to a request for relief by way of a writ of mandamus

OPINION AND ORDER 1

LETTOW, Judge.

Petitioners Doug and Rhonda Paluck, on behalf of their son, Karl Paluck, seek modifi cation of this court’s decision rendered April 18, 2012, remanding this case to a special master pursuant to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub.L. No. 99-660, § 311, 100 Stat. 3743, 3755-84 (1986)…