Ryan Martin, by His Parents and Next Friends, Kim and Samuel Martin v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court must first “establish that there is jurisdiction” and “[o]nly then may it adjudicate the merits of the claim”
• stating that issues of statutory interpretation and jurisdiction under the Vaccine Act raise questions of law reviewed de novo
• stating “section 15(e)(1) simply authorizes fee awards in cases already within the jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims”
• “the distinction between facts necessary to establish jurisdiction and those necessary to prove a claim is often a close one, carrying significant legal consequences”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).