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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01560
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01560
Petitioner: Kathy Cummings Gillim
Filed: 2018-10-09
Decided: 2022-03-29
Vaccine: DTaP
Vaccination date: 2015-09-04
Condition: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and/or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Outcome: dismissed
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AI-assisted case summary:
Kathy Cummings Gillim filed a petition on October 9, 2018, alleging that the DTaP vaccine she received on September 4, 2015, caused her to develop Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and/or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). The respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, filed a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal on March 2, 2022. In accordance with Vaccine Rule 21(a), the case was dismissed without prejudice. This means the proceedings on the merits are concluded, but no judgment on the merits was entered.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01560-0
Date issued/filed: 2022-03-29
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 3/2/2022) regarding 80 Order Concluding Proceedings. Signed by Special Master Mindy Michaels Roth. (msg) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:18-vv-01560-UNJ Document 83 Filed 03/29/22 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 18-1560V
Filed: March 2, 2022
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KATHY CUMMINGS GILLIM, * UNPUBLISHED
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Petitioner, * Voluntary Dismissal; Order Concluding
v. * Proceedings.
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH *
AND HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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Scott Rooney, Esq., Nemes Rooney P.C., Farmington Hills, MI for petitioner.
Camille Collett, Esq., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC for respondent.
ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
Roth, Special Master:
On October 9, 2018, Kathy Cummings Gillim (“Ms. Gillim” or “petitioner”) filed a petition
for compensation in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“the Program”).2
Petitioner alleges that the DTaP vaccine she received on September 4, 2015 caused her to develop
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (“GBS”) and/or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
(“CIDP”). See Petition, ECF No. 1.
On March 2, 2022, respondent filed a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal. ECF No. 79.
In light of the parties’ stipulation of dismissal pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a), this case is
dismissed without prejudice. Accordingly, this Order hereby notifies the Clerk of Court that
1 Although this Order 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 Order will be available to anyone
with access to the internet. However, the parties may object to the Order’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 Order will be available to the
public. Id.
2 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.

Case 1:18-vv-01560-UNJ Document 83 Filed 03/29/22 Page 2 of 2
proceedings “on the merits” of this petition are now concluded, but no judgment “on the merits”
should be entered by the Clerk’s office.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Mindy Michaels Roth
Mindy Michaels Roth
Special Master
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