VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_20-vv-01583
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_20-vv-01583
Petitioner: SUSAN HODGIN
Filed: 
Decided: 2022-09-27
Vaccine: 
Vaccination date: 
Condition: 
Outcome: dismissed
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
Susan Hodgin filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The case progressed procedurally, and on August 2, 2022, both Petitioner Susan Hodgin and Respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, filed a joint stipulation requesting that the case be dismissed. The Special Master issued an order on September 27, 2022, dismissing the case without prejudice and instructing that no judgment be entered. No specific vaccine, injury, or causation theory was discussed as the case was dismissed by stipulation.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_20-vv-01583-0
Date issued/filed: 2022-09-27
Pages: 1
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 8/3/2022) regarding 35 Order Concluding Proceedings. Signed by Special Master Katherine E. Oler. (sl) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:20-vv-01583-UNJ Document 36 Filed 09/27/22 Page 1 of 1
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 20-1583V
(not to be published)
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SUSAN HODGIN, * Special Master Katherine E. Oler
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Petitioner,
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* Filed: August 3, 2022
v. *
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND *
* Order Concluding Proceedings;
HUMAN SERVICES,
* Vaccine Rule 21(a).
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Respondent. *
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Edward Berry, Servant Law, LLC, Oneonta, AL, for Petitioner
Terrence Mangan, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent
ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
On August 2, 2022, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a)(1)(B), the parties filed a joint
stipulation stating that the above-captioned case should be dismissed. ECF No. 34.
Accordingly, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a)(3), 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).
Any questions regarding this Order may be directed to my law clerk, Sydney Lee, by
telephone at 202-357-6347, or by email at Sydney_Lee@cfc.uscourts.gov.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Katherine E. Oler
Katherine E. Oler
Special Master
1 Although this Order has been formally designated “not to be published,” it will nevertheless be posted on
the Court of Federal Claims’s website in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, 44 U.S.C. § 3501
(2012). This means the order will be available to anyone with access to the internet. As provided by
42 U.S.C. § 300aa-12(d)(4)(B), 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 Order in its present form will be available. Id.