US Court Conference Cancels Panel with , Marcuse, Healy, Kirby & Attkisson

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I will be posting these two letters, without comment, soon. –

DK --

1) Here is a copy of the “Save the Date” Letter sent out by

United States Court of Federal Claims Chief Special Master Golkiewicz on

June 10.

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/Nov%2008%20Jud%20Conference%20save%20the%20date%20letter.pdf

2) Here is the cancellation letter

that Golkiewicz sent out on July 2:

I am very sorry to inform you that it was decided to cancel the panel program, on which you were

scheduled to participate, as part of the Vaccine session of the Court's

Judicial Conference. By way of explanation, the Court's planning process

starts with defining a broad overarching theme,

moves to identifying speakers, and subsequently focuses through meetings

and discussions of the planning committee on actual content of the panels.

This process moves very quickly as materials must be to the printers by

mid-July. As the planning of the vaccine session developed, it

became apparent that the discussion anticipated from this panel did not fit the

goal of furthering the Bar's understanding of litigation under the Vaccine

Compensation Program before the Special Masters or the Court's judges (in fact,

another non-vaccine related panel was eliminated after discussions determined

that it did not meet the Conference goals of focusing on litigation related

issues.) While I have no doubt that your discussion of vaccines'

benefits and concerns is extremely important to the overall understanding of

the immunization program, and would be enlightening to all, it is simply a

discussion not consistent with the Court's Conference but is better suited to

another forum. Thank you for your support and my sincerest apologies,