VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-00255
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-00255
Petitioner: MAUREEN COOK
Filed: 2018-04-17
Decided: 2019-04-17
Vaccine: 
Vaccination date: 
Condition: 
Outcome: dismissed
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AI-assisted case summary:
Maureen Cook filed a petition for vaccine injury compensation on April 17, 2018. The case progressed until April 16, 2019, when both parties filed a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal. Based on this stipulation, the Special Master issued an order on April 17, 2019, dismissing the case without prejudice and instructing that judgment shall not enter. No details regarding the vaccine, alleged injury, or outcome were provided in this procedural order.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-00255-0
Date issued/filed: 2019-05-13
Pages: 1
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER (Originally filed: 4/17/19) regarding 31 Order Concluding Proceedings. Signed by Special Master Thomas L. Gowen. (kb) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:18-vv-00255-UNJ Document 32 Filed 05/13/19 Page 1 of 1
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
Filed: April 17, 2019
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MAUREEN COOK, * UNPUBLISHED
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Petitioner, * No. 18-255V
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v. * Special Master Gowen
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH * Order Concluding Proceedings;
AND HUMAN SERVICES, * Vaccine Rule 21(a).
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Respondent. *
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Nancy Routh Meyers, Ward Black Law, Greensboro, NC, for petitioner.
Heather Lynn Pearlman, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.
ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
On April 16, 2019, the parties filed a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal in the above-
captioned case. ECF No. 30. Accordingly, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a), the above-captioned
case is dismissed without prejudice. The Clerk of the Court is hereby instructed that judgment
shall not enter in the instant case pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Thomas L. Gowen
Thomas L. Gowen
Special Master
1 Pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002, see 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012), because this opinion contains a
reasoned explanation for the action in this case, I am required to post it on the website of the United States Court of
Federal Claims. The court’s website is at http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/aggregator/sources/7. This means the
opinion will be available to anyone with access to the Internet. Before the opinion is posted on the court’s
website, each party has 14 days to file a motion requesting 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). “An objecting party must provide the court with a proposed redacted version of the
decision.” Id. If neither party files a motion for redaction within 14 days, the opinion will be posted on the
court’s website without any changes. Id.