United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's tort claims is reversed where the district court incorrectly determined that defendant is a vaccine manufacturer entitled to protection under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2004
• Published 08/17/2004

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, BENAVIDES and PICKERING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott R. Bickford, Spencer R. Doody, Martzell & Bickford, New Orleans, LA, Charles S. Siegel (argued), Waters & Kraus, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Erick Yukihiko Miyagi, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Merck & Co., Bradley S. Wolff, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, GA, C. Edgar Cloutier, Christopher Jude Alfieri, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, LA, for Aventis Pasteur, Inc., Bruce Robert Tepikian (argued), Deborah A. Moeller, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Charles L. Chassaignac, Brent A. Talbot, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, LA, for Eli Lilly & Co., Kathleen A. Manning, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orlans, LA, Richard William Mark (argued), Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, New York City, for Wyeth.