Louise Batten v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

In the United States Court of Federal Claiins

OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS

No. 12-897V

Filed: February 27, 2013 **************$*************************

LOUISE BATTEN, * UNPUBLISHED * * Dismissal Decision; Received * Substances Are Not Listed on the * Vaccine Injury Table; Failure

Petitioner, * to State A Claim Upon Which * Relief Can Be Granted v. * *

SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND *

HUMAN SERVICES, * =¢=

Respondent. * **************************$*************

Louise Batten, pro se petitioner

Justine Daigneault, Washington, DC, for respondent.

DISMISSAL DECISION!

On December 20, 2012, Louise Batten (petitioner) filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine injury Compensation Act ("Vaccine Act").z Because this decision contains a reasoned explanation for the undersigned’s action in this case, the undersigned intends to post this decision on the United States Court of Federal Claims’ website, in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-347, 116 Stat. 2899, 2913 (Dec. 17, 2002). As provided by Vaccine Rule 18(b), each party has 14 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 lS(b). Otherwise, "the entire" decision will be available to the public. I_d.

2 The National Vaccine injury Compensation Act 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-1 to -34 (2006) ("Vaccine Act" or "Act"). All citations in this decision to individual sections of the Act are to 42 U.S.C.A. § 300aa.