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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00601
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00601
Petitioner: Kendall A. Schrader
Filed: 2025-04-07
Decided: 2025-10-31
Vaccine: Tdap
Vaccination date: 2024-09-20
Condition: temporary disability
Outcome: dismissed
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AI-assisted case summary:
Kendall A. Schrader filed a petition on April 7, 2025, alleging temporary disability resulting from a Tdap vaccine received on September 20, 2024. The respondent is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. On September 4, 2025, the petitioner filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice, in accordance with Vaccine Rule 21(a). The court dismissed the case without prejudice, and no judgment was entered. The specific nature of the temporary disability was not detailed, and the theory of causation was unclear.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00601-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-10-31
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 9/4/2025) regarding 13 Order Concluding Proceedings. Signed by Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey. (mjf) Service on parties made. (Main Document 14 replaced on 10/31/2025 to add reissued information) (sw). Petitioner served via e-mail on 11/3/2025 (sw).
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Case 1:25-vv-00601-UNJ Document 14 Filed 10/31/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
Originally Filed: September 4, 2025
Reissued for Public Availability: October 31, 2025
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KENDALL A. SCHRADER, *
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Petitioner, * No. 25-601V
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v. * Special Master Dorsey
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH *
AND HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
On April 7, 2025, Kendall A. Schrader (“Petitioner”) filed a petition for compensation
under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“Vaccine Act” or “the Program”), 42
U.S.C. § 300aa-10 et seq. (2018).2 Petitioner alleged that she suffered temporary disability as a
result of a tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (“Tdap”) vaccine received on September 20, 2024.
Petition at Preamble (ECF No. 1).
On September 4, 2025, Petitioner filed a notice of voluntary dismissal pursuant to
Vaccine Rule 21(a). Petitioner’s Notice of Voluntary Dismissal, filed Sept. 4, 2025 (ECF No.
12).
Under Vaccine Rule 21(a), which governs dismissal of a petition, “Petitioner may dismiss
the petition without order of the special master or the court by filing: . . . a notice of dismissal at
any time before service of [R]espondent’s report.” Vaccine Rule 21(a)(1)(A). Unless stated
otherwise, the dismissal is without prejudice. Vaccine Rule 21(a)(2). “A petition dismissed
under this subdivision (a) will not result in a judgment pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11 for purposes
of 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-21(a).” Vaccine Rule 21(a)(3).
1 Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 18(b), this Order was initially filed on September 4, 2025, and the
parties were afforded 14 days to propose redactions. The parties did not propose any redactions.
Accordingly, this Order is reissued in its original form for posting on the Court’s website.
2 The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is set forth in 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 to -34 (2018). All citations in this Order to individual sections of the
Vaccine Act are to 42 U.S.C. § 300aa.
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Case 1:25-vv-00601-UNJ Document 14 Filed 10/31/25 Page 2 of 2
In accordance with Vaccine Rule 21(a), this case is hereby dismissed without prejudice.
The Clerk of Court is instructed that judgment shall not enter in the instant case pursuant to
Vaccine Rule 21(a)(3).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Nora Beth Dorsey
Nora Beth Dorsey
Special Master
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