· 11/15/1993
Hodges v. Secretary Of Health And Human Services
Citations
- 9 F.3d 958
- 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 29590
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that Congress contemplated the special masters would use their accumulated expertise in the field of vaccine injuries to judge the merits of individual claims
- “Bring the case within the timetable and specifications of a Table Injury and the statute does the heavy lifting — causation is conclusively presumed.”
- \Bring the case within the timetable and specifications of a Table Injury and the statute does the heavy lifting — causation is conclusively presumed.\
- “Congress assigned to a group of specialists, the Special Masters ... the unenviable job of sorting through these painful cases and, based upon their accumulated expertise in the field, judging the merits of the individual claims.”
- the special master’s resolution of a vaccine case “is essentially a judicial process”
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