Supreme Court rules for vaccine makers on lawsuits

[Serpo]

Supreme Court rules for vaccine makers on lawsuits


By James Vicini James Vicini –

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled that federal law shields vaccine makers from product-liability lawsuits in state court seeking damages for a child's injuries or death from a vaccine's side effects.

The high court on Tuesday ruled for Wyeth, which is now owned by Pfizer Inc, in a lawsuit brought by the parents of Hannah Bruesewitz, who suffered seizures as an infant after her third dose of a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine in 1992.

Pfizer and other vaccine makers had argued that a Supreme Court ruling for the plaintiffs could open the door to a flood of lawsuits -- many by families who believe vaccines cause autism -- and threaten the supply of childhood vaccines.

Pfizer Executive Vice President and General Counsel Amy Schulman said the company was pleased with the ruling.

"The Vaccine Act that Congress enacted nearly 25 years ago appropriately places the responsibility for determining the optimal design of life-saving childhood vaccines in the hands of expert federal agencies, not a patchwork of state tort systems," she said.

At issue in the ruling was the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, a law that created a special program to handle disputes in an effort to ensure a stable vaccine supply by shielding companies from most lawsuits.

The federal program, involving what is known as the vaccine court, has awarded more than $1.8 billion for vaccine injury claims in nearly 2,500 cases since 1989. It is funded by a tax on vaccines.

In the Hannah Bruesewitz case from Pennsylvania, her parents claimed in their lawsuit that her seizure disorder and serious developmental delay stemmed from toxins in the vaccine's design.

They said a safer alternative had been available but was not used. The DTP vaccine was taken off the market in 1998.

Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz said their daughter was a healthy infant until she received the shot, but has experienced seizure disorders and developmental problems ever since, requiring a lifetime of supervision and care.

WYETH HAS DENIED VACCINE CAUSED INJURIES

Wyeth has denied its vaccine caused her injuries.

After the couple's claims were rejected under the federal compensation process, they filed a lawsuit in state court. But a federal judge and then a federal appeals court based in Philadelphia ruled the 1986 federal law barred such lawsuits.

The Supreme Court, in a majority opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, upheld that decision and ruled the federal law pre-empted all such design-defect claims against vaccine manufacturers.

"Vaccine manufacturers fund from their sales an informal, efficient compensation program for vaccine injuries; in exchange they avoid costly tort litigation and the occasional disproportionate jury verdict. Congress enacted this deal to coax manufacturers back into the vaccine market," Scalia said.

The ruling accepted the Obama administration's position.

O. Marion Burton, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 60,000 pediatricians, applauded the ruling.

"Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed what pediatricians have been advocating for decades," Dr. Burton said. "Vaccines save lives."


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[Ponce]

Wowwwwwww this is friking BIG............SOB's.

[ximmy]

big pharma payoffs... lands and titles... who among the supremes could resist....

[Serpo]

big pharma payoffs... lands and titles... who among the supremes could resist....


Thats for sure big pay offs

[mick silver]

the end is near ... anyone who think it not is just kidding there selfs

[Book]

The Rule Of Law

:D

[Ponce]

Like a stripper, little by little they are taking away our rights...for our own "good".

[oldmansmith]

The Rule Of Law

:D


"If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."

-Edward Abbey

[Cobalt]

They have been pushing for tort reform for years, I guess they just got it

[Serpo]

Two British doctors recently wrote a piece in the BBC urging the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) to switch from Merck's Cervarix human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Gardasil HPV vaccine, in its mass vaccination program for young girls. And the two "experts" admit that they only say publicly what helps the vaccine to be well received by the public.

"We, as consultants in sexual health, have been told to say nothing publicly that would damage the current (HPV) vaccine campaign," they state in their piece.

Drs. Colm O'Mahony and Steve Taylor insist that because Gardasil allegedly protects against genital warts as well as HPV, it is superior to Cervarix, which NHS currently administers to young girls. As long as Gardasil is the same price or cheaper than Cervarix, then NHS should use it, wrote the doctors. And if it is more expensive, then Cervarix is the next best option, they say.

But what is missing from their recommendations is the fact that Dr. O'Mahony has been on the advisory boards of both GSK and Merck, and has received "lecture fees" for his services. This clear conflict of interest may be the precise reason why no mention is made in the BBC piece about the countless thousands of young girls that have become debilitated or died from both Cervarix and Gardasil.

Neither Cervarix nor Gardasil has ever even been proven effective. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has known since at least 2003 that HPV is not even linked to cervical cancer, which is the whole reason it is supposedly being pushed in the first place (http://www.naturalnews.com/022404.html). And besides its ineffectiveness, the vaccines are responsible for causing permanent neurological damage, seizures, severe headaches, muscle pain and weakness, joint problems, autoimmune diseases, heart problems, paralysis, pelvic pain, vision and hearing loss, menstrual cycle changes, and swollen lymph nodes, among many other things (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/).

The HPV vaccine scam is precisely that -- a scam. It is nothing more than a money-making scheme whereby drug companies work to persuade states and even countries to mandate that all young girls receive the vaccine before entering school.

To learn more about the dangers of the HPV vaccine, visit:
http://www.truthaboutgardasil.org

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031410_HPV_vaccines_doctors.html#ixzz1EjTf5UtS

[Serpo]

In 6-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision that bars parents of vaccine-damaged children from seeking justice against vaccine manufacturers. The parents, Robalee and Russell Bruesewitz of Pittsburgh, saw their healthy child damaged by a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine in April, 1992. Just hours after receiving the shot, their daughter Hannah went into seizures. Today she still suffers from residual seizure disorder.

The parents sought compensation by first filing their case with the vaccine court -- a special pseudo-justice system set up by the U.S. government to provide blanket immunity to the drug companies while still offering settlement payouts for parents whose children are damaged by vaccines. Since being formed in 1986, this court has paid out $1.9 billion to parents whose children were damaged by vaccines.

But in the case of Bruesewitz, their claim was denied. The vaccine court, after all, is run by the U.S. government, and the government doesn't want too many payouts to take place because that would set a precedent of vaccine damage that could cost the government billions (or even trillions) of dollars in unexpected settlement fees.

So the Bruesewitz parents decided to file their claim in the regular court system as their last remaining option for seeking justice for the damage caused to their child by what can only be called a "faulty product" (the vaccine).

The great injustice of legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers
It is interesting that most people agree with the idea that when corporations make dangerous products that harm or kill children, they should be held accountable. Makers of baby strollers or infant formula, for example, are not granted immunity from lawsuits. Nor are makers of automobile child restraint seats or baby cribs. In every case other than vaccines, corporations are held accountable for the safety of their products. But like magic, when it comes to vaccines, safety is not their concern because they have zero liability anyway.

The liability, it turns out, has been shifted to the federal government which operates its "let's-make-a-mockery-of-justice" vaccine court. This puts the federal government in the position of denying any validity to legitimate claims that vaccines harm children, because to admit such a thing would cause a tidal wave of claims to come flooding into the vaccine court, resulting in potentially trillions of dollars in payouts to all the parents whose children have been harmed by vaccines.

What we have here, folks, is a genuine circle-the-wagons, cover-your-eyes, deny-the-truth cover-up involving Big Government and Big Pharma operating "in cahoots." The government gives the vaccine industry blanket immunity, then they both join hands in denying that vaccines cause any damage whatsoever.

The parents, meanwhile, are denied their Constitutional right to due process! Such is the upshot of today's Supreme Court decision, which has now condemned countless more children to suffer the seizures, comas and deaths caused by vaccines -- even while their parents will have no legitimate legal recourse.

That's why this situation is not only a travesty of public health but also a travesty of justice.

Vaccines are medical violence against children
The vaccine industry is killing children. It is maiming them, destroying their nervous systems and causing permanent harm. These are acts of medical violence committed against children. Even the vaccine court admits this link through its own cash payouts to parents of damaged (or dead) children.

And yet, the U.S. government continues to endorse these acts of violence against children. It even goes so far as to excuse them by providing immunity to the corporations whose products harm these children.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that this blanket immunity takes away any incentive of safety from the vaccine manufacturers. With no liability, what motivation do they have to improve the safety of their products? They have none. No wonder vaccines continue to be so dangerous, manufactured with mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde among other neurotoxic ingredients.

This entire situation is nothing less than extraordinary. The vaccine industry gets blanket immunity. The government denies parents their Constitutional right to due process. The children continue to be harmed and killed by vaccines, and yet the parents have no means by which they can seek justice.

This is entirely un-America. It is a violation of the Constitution, a violation of justice and of course a violation of the health of our children.

This is, effectively, an act of state-sponsored medical terrorism against parents and children.

And it begs the question: When parents are denied due process; denied their Constitutional rights; denied their day in court and denied compensation for the harm that has been brought upon their children, what options of recourse do they have left?

Those denied justice through the courts will seek it in other ways
This is where acts of violence will no doubt enter the picture. Violence is the last, desperate option for those who have been denied all other options to resolve their grievances peacefully. When the courts, the government and the corporations have conspired against you to harm your children and then deny you any legal recourse, it is only a matter of time before some parent of a vaccine-damaged child decides to take matters into their own hands through acts of violence committed against those who damaged their children.

Do not misinterpret this as an endorse of such actions. NaturalNews has consistently and repeatedly decried the use of violence to resolve problems. Yet we cannot deny that in this legal / pharma / government conspiracy that causes children to be harmed while denying parents any legitimate legal recourse, it is inevitable that angry, disenfranchised parents will sooner or later reach a boiling point and decide to pursue justice in the only way left available to them.

Vaccines, after all, are a form of medical violence against children. It is unreasonable for the state to maintain the position that it can support a system of violence against children without fomenting violence as a reaction. The source of the violence is, of course, the state itself, which is now even engaged in efforts to strip away religious exemption rights of parents as well.

The vaccine industry declares war on America's children
This is, as I mentioned earlier, an act of war against America's children. Every war sooner or later spurs the rise of a resistance. And today, the vaccine resistance movement is growing by leaps and bounds, with more and more parents, doctors, and even scientists joining it every day. Every death of a child by vaccines is blood on the hands of the vaccine pushers and the government which now openly conspires with it.

I can only pray that God has mercy on the souls of these vaccine death pushers, because there is little doubt that the parents of these maimed and dead children will not.

In an age when the government actively conspires to harm and even kill your children through a system of medical violence, parents not only have the natural right -- but the duty -- to take active measures to protect their children from further harm.

The uprising against the vaccine state
If this issue of the state enforcing acts of medical violence against children cannot be resolved through the Constitutionally-guaranteed right to due process, it will sadly and inevitably be resolved through acts of popular uprising. That is the lesson being learned today all over the world: In Egypt, Libya, Iran and even Wisconsin.

When the People are suppressed, with their children are maimed by the state, when their rights are denied by the courts, and when they feel as if they have no options remaining to them, they will sooner or later take to the streets with sticks, or stones, or bullets. One way or another, they will seek the justice that has been denied them by the corrupt state, operating in a criminal conspiracy with the vaccine industry.

I pray for America. And I pray for the victims of the vaccine industry. I pray, but I do not dare hope, that this grave injustice can be resolved without eventual bloodshed committed by those who have been driven to desperation by a corrupt, criminally-operated system of medical violence against children.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031453_Supreme_Court_vaccinations.html#ixzz1EjUVhH fC



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[ximmy]

Your government loves you.

[mick silver]

dam ximmy you just scare me

[Serpo]

Your government loves you.


And that is just the way it is............no bigger crime against man or the creator..........injecting this stuff into anyone ,but young innocent children especially all in the name of profits........these people are less than human because they know exactly what is going on......

[ShortJohnSilver]

I remember talking to a guy who used to work for a pharma company ... he was in charge of cutting checks for a particular plant (accountant / comptroller or something like that).

So the local garbage company kept sending invoices that were not conforming to the standards the drugco required - I am not sure what info was missing, but it was a big enough deal that the accountant kept telling them they would not be accepted, and not paying them.

So the local garbage company goombah comes by and says, "you are going to get visited by some guys in nice suits driving Lincolns who work for us; they will ensure our invoices get paid" ... the accountant says, look, we will pay you, but the invoices need to be in the right format ; goombah says "pay up", accountant says no, etc.

As the drugco accountant told me "Pharma companies have their own versions of guys in nice suits who drive Lincolns, so I wasn't scared of him at all ... no one touches us."

The goombah had to stay late at this guy's office, redo the invoices one by one, then finally left with the check.

[Twisted Titan]

Your government loves you.


And that is just the way it is............no bigger crime against man or the creator..........injecting this stuff into anyone ,but young innocent children especially all in the name of profits........these people are less than human because they know exactly what is going on......



Which is why I hold the belife that the top leadership in any organization are Socipaths

Which is why I laugh when some belive that paperwork or procedure is going to stop them having their way with you.

I have observed that only to things work on Sociopaths DISTANCE OR FORCE

Avoid them if possible ( preferred)

If you cant.

Use as much Force as Possible until they get the message you are NOT The One.


T

[po boy]

2 words "religious exemption".

People seem to think they should have the right to to raise their child the way they want, the state thinks other wise.

Did you get a marriage license and fill out a birth certificate, if so it's the STATES kid and your the babysitter in charge of raising the States kid how it sees fit.So if the state wants to shoot the tot up with snake venom to profit greedy pharma companies they're going to do it at your and the kid's expense!

The state isn't taking away rights people are GIVING them away unknowingly through adhesion contracts.