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IN RE SWINE FLU IMMUNIZATION PRODUCTS LIABILITY

Civ. A. No. 78-F-1128.

495 F.Supp. 1188 (1980)

In re [SWINE FLU IMMUNIZATION] PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. Jennie ALVAREZ, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

July 31, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Branney and Neil Hillyard, Englewood, Colo., and Clifford J. Shoemaker, Arlington, Va., for plaintiff.

Joseph Dolan, U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., Jeffrey Axelrad, Director, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Kathryn Richman and William C. Danks, Asst. U. S. Attys., Denver, Colo., and W. Russell Welsh, Trial Atty., Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHERMAN G. FINESILVER, District Judge:

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW OF THE CASE

On October 28, 1976, plaintiff Jennie Alvarez, age sixty-three and a resident of a small farming community near Greeley, Colorado, received a swine flu vaccination administered pursuant to the National Influenza Immunization Program of 1976. The program was designed to inoculate the country's adult population against the threat of a swine flu...

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