Court Opinion

ID: 6315930
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 22:02:21.708849+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:02:19.878169
License: Public Domain

In the United States Court of Federal Claims
                                 OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
                                         No. 19-1884V
                                      (not to be published)

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    JUANITA CHAPLIN,            *
                                *                          Special Master Katherine E. Oler
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                    Petitioner, *
                                *                          Filed: December 30, 2021
    v.                          *
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    SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND     *                          Order Concluding Proceedings;
    HUMAN SERVICES,             *                          Vaccine Rule 21(a).
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                    Respondent  *
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Patrick Hughes, Patriots Law Group of Lyons & Hughes, P.C., Suitland, MD, for Petitioner
Nancy Tinch, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent

                            ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1

        On December 28, 2021, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a)(1)(B), the parties filed a joint
stipulation stating that the above-captioned case should be dismissed. ECF No. 39.

       Accordingly, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a)(3), the above-captioned case is hereby
dismissed without prejudice. The Clerk of the Court is hereby instructed that a judgment shall
not enter in the instant case pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a).

       Any questions regarding this Order may be directed to my law clerk, Sydney Lee, by
telephone at 202-357-6347, or by email at Sydney_Lee@cfc.uscourts.gov.

        IT IS SO ORDERED.
                                                                   s/ Katherine E. Oler
                                                                   Katherine E. Oler
                                                                   Special Master
1
 Although this Decision has been formally designated “not to be published,” it will nevertheless be posted
on the Court of Federal Claims’ website in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, 44 U.S.C. §
3501 (2012). This means the Decision will be available to anyone with access to the internet. As
provided by 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-12(d)(4)(B), however, the parties may object to the decision’s inclusion of
certain kinds of confidential information. Specifically, under Vaccine Rule 18(b), each party has fourteen
days within which to request redaction “of any information furnished by that party: (1) that is a trade secret
or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or confidential; or (2) that includes medical files
or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.”
Vaccine Rule 18(b). Otherwise, the Decision in its present form will be available. Id.