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Explanation of arguments heard by the Justices last Tuesday in vaccination case

By Alliance Alert

Lisa McElroy writing at SCOTUSblog: "Let?s start with Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a case about whether vaccine manufacturers can be held liable for design defects in their vaccines. In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), providing that vaccine manufacturers cannot be sued for injuries from vaccines if the injuries resulted from side effects that were 'unavoidable' . . . The petitioners in this case are the parents of Hannah Bruesewitz, who when she was six months old suffered severe seizures after receiving one of her childhood vaccines . . . This case is a great example of one major class of Supreme Court cases ? cases involving statutory interpretation. Here, the parties disagree about what the statutory language of the Act means."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).