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SNYDER v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Nos. 2013-5068, 2013-5072

JED SNYDER AND LILIA SNYDER, Parents of N.S., Petitioners-Appellees, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Respondent-Appellant. FRANK HARRIS, Parent of JORDAN HARRIS, a minor, Petitioner-Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided January 28, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOSEPH PEPPER and SYLVIA CHIN-CAPLAN , Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan, P.C., of Boston, Massachusetts, argued for Petitioners-Appellees. On the brief was RONALD C. HOMER .

VORIS E. JOHNSON, JR. , Assistant Director, Torts Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for Respondent-Appellant. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY , Acting Assistant Attorney General, RUPA BHATTACHARYYA , Director, VINCENT J. MATANOSKI , Deputy Director, and CATHERINE E. REEVES , Assistant Director.

Before O'MALLEY, BRYSON, and WALLACH,

This disposition is nonprecedential

WALLACH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners-Appellees, by and through their parents, filed suits under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-1 to 300aa-34 (2006) ("Vaccine Act"), alleging that they suffered from epilepsy or a seizure disorder, as a direct result of the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine ("DTaP"). The same Special Master presided over Petitioners'...

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