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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01865
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01865
Petitioner: JANET HALSTENSON
Filed: 2019-01-07
Decided: 2019-02-27
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Outcome: dismissed
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AI-assisted case summary:
Janet Halstenson filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on January 7, 2019. The case progressed procedurally, and on January 4, 2019, the petitioner filed a Notice of Dismissal. Chief Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey issued an order on February 27, 2019, dismissing the case without prejudice pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a). No judgment was to be entered. The decision noted that the order would be posted online and provided a 14-day window for the petitioner to request redaction of sensitive information.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_18-vv-01865-0
Date issued/filed: 2019-02-27
Pages: 1
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 01/07/2019) regarding 9 Order Concluding Proceedings ( Signed by Chief Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey. )(mpj) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:18-vv-01865-UNJ Document 10 Filed 02/27/19 Page 1 of 1
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 18-1865V
Filed: January 7, 2019
UNPUBLISHED
JANET HALSTENSON,
Special Processing Unit (SPU);
Vaccine Rule 21(a); Order
Petitioner,
Concluding Proceedings
v.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Timothy James Lessman, Knutson & Casey Law Firm, Mankato, MN for petitioner.
Heather Lynn Pearlman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.
ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
Dorsey, Chief Special Master:
On January 4, 2019, petitioner filed a Notice of Dismissal in the above-captioned
case.
Accordingly, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21 (a), the above-captioned case is
hereby dismissed without prejudice. The Clerk of the Court is hereby instructed that
a judgment shall not enter in the instant case pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Nora Beth Dorsey
Nora Beth Dorsey
Chief Special Master
1 The undersigned intends to post this order on the United States Court of Federal Claims' website. This
means the order will be available to anyone with access to the Internet. In accordance with Vaccine
Rule 18(b), petitioner has 14 days to identify and move to redact medical or other information, the
disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. If, upon review, the undersigned
agrees that the identified material fits within this definition, the undersigned will redact such material from
public access. Because this unpublished order contains a reasoned explanation for the action in this
case, undersigned is required to post it on the United States Court of Federal Claims' website in
accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002. 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012) (Federal Management and
Promotion of Electronic Government Services).