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IN RE SWINE FLU IMMUNIZATION PROD. LIABILITY LIT.

Civ. A. No. 78-F-452.

533 F.Supp. 703 (1982)

In re SWINE FLU IMMUNIZATION PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. Verlin G. UNTHANK, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Utah.

January 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark W. Sessions, and Duane R. Smith, Sessions, Moore & Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff Verlin G. Unthank.

Jeffrey Axelrad, Director, Torts Branch, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Emilia DeMeo, Trial Atty., Torts Branch, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Ronald L. Rencher, U. S. Atty., D. Utah, and Lawrence J. Leigh, Asst. U. S. Atty., D. Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant United States of America.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHERMAN G. FINESILVER, District Judge:1

Plaintiff Verlin G. Unthank claims that her neurological illness, transverse myelitis, resulted from the National Swine Flu Immunization Program of 1976. Further, she alleges that the defendant United States of America, sponsor of the program, is liable for damages.

In this suit, brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"), 28 U.S.C. §§...

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