Children's Health Defense By
On Jan. 8, 2024, nearly two years after Children’s Health Defense (CHD) sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agency’s authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children, CHD attorneys will be in court to argue that the lawsuit should be allowed to go forward.
CHD attorneys will ask the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the decision by a lower federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, which in November 2022 dismissed the amended lawsuit brought by CHD and five parents on grounds the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the FDA.
CHD filed an appeal in the 5th Circuit in May 2023.
“We’re excited to have our day in court and have counsel for CHD and the other plaintiffs” make the case “that we have standing to sue the FDA and that the FDA violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) in approving these vaccines for young children,” said CHD Acting General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg…
