Ruby Flowers, Administratrix for the Estate of Melissa J. Malone v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

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• holding that § 300aa-11(a)(5)(B) “prohibit[s] the filing of any Vac- cine Act petition in which the petitioner has a co-pending civil action, irrespective of the date of that co-pendency”
• treating a Vaccine Act petition filed one day after a civil state complaint as a nullity
• construing § 11(a)(5)(B) “to prohibit the filing of any Vaccine Act petition in which the petitioner has a co-pending civil action” and affirming dismissal even when the state civil action was dismissed during pendency of the Vaccine Act petition
• statutory interpretation begins with the language of the statute

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