Melissa Hines, on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, Amber Sevier v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “reversible error [is] extremely difficult to demonstrate”
• finding no error when the Special Master considered the entire record, although he did not give certain evidence “the controlling weight [the petitioner] urge[d] he should have”
• explaining a Special Master’s task is to “consider . . . the relevant evidence in the record as a whole”
• finding harmless error where “the special master’s decision was based on a number of factors and [petitioner had] not shown that reliance on the . . . [contested issue] was likely critical to the result”
• “causation in fact requires proof of a logical sequence of cause and effect showing that the vaccination was the reason for the injury.”
• “causation in fact requires proof of a logical sequence of cause and effect showing that the vaccination was the reason for the injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).