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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_15-vv-00090
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_15-vv-00090
Petitioner: James Moore
Filed: 2015-01-29
Decided: 2019-08-20
Vaccine: hepatitis B
Vaccination date: 2012-10-03
Condition: post-vaccinal neuropathy
Outcome: dismissed
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
James Moore filed a petition for vaccine compensation on January 29, 2015, alleging that two hepatitis B vaccines received on October 3, 2012, and December 7, 2012, caused him to develop post-vaccinal neuropathy. The record did not support his claim for entitlement to compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The case was dismissed. The petitioner was represented pro se at the time of this decision. The decision noted that the petitioner had initially been represented by counsel who was relieved on May 23, 2019, after which Mr. Moore proceeded without legal representation. The specific reasons for the dismissal were not detailed in this particular document, but it indicated a lack of sufficient evidence to establish entitlement. The case involved a claim for a neurological condition following vaccination, but the court found the evidence insufficient to warrant compensation.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_15-vv-00090-1
Date issued/filed: 2019-08-20
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC DECISION (Originally filed: 7/25/19) regarding 82 DECISION of Special Master, Signed by Special Master Mindy Michaels Roth. (tjk) Service on parties made.
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OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
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Filed: July 25, 2019
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JAMES MOORE
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Dismissal; Hepatitis B ("Hep B ")
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Petitioner, Vaccine; Neuropathy
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH
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Respondent.
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Pro se, Tamarac, FL, for petitioner.
Jennifer Reynaud, Esq., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC for respondent.
DECISION1
Roth, Special Master:
On January 29, 2015, petitioner2 filed a petition for Vaccine Compensation in the National
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Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ("the Program"), alleging that the hepatitis B ("Hep B")
vaccines he received on October 3, 2012 and December 7, 2012 caused him to develop post­
vaccinal neuropathy. The information in the record, however, does not show entitlement to an
1 Although this Decision has been formally designated "unpublished," it will nevertheless be posted on the
Court of Federal Claims's website, in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-
347, 116 Stat. 2899, 2913 (codified as amended at 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2006)). This means the Decision
will be available to anyone with access to the internet. However, the parties may object to the Decision's
inclusion of certain kinds of confidential information. Specifically, under Vaccine Rule 18(b) , each party
has fourteen days within which to request redaction "of any information furnished by that party: ( 1) that is
a trade secret or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or confidential; or (2) that includes
medical files or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
privacy." Vaccine Rule 18(b). Otherwise, the whole Decision will be available to the public. Id.
2 Petitioner was originally represented by Ms. Lisa Levine but Ms. Levine was relieved as counsel on
May 23, 2019 and petitioner became prose.
3 The Program comprises Part 2 of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660,
100 Stat. 3755, codified as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10 et seq. (hereinafter "Vaccine Act" or "the
Act"). Hereafter, individual section references will be to 42 U.S.C. § 300aa of the Act.

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