- 21 Dec 2001--Connecticut Attorney General's Office, Press Release: Attorney General's Statement On Anthrax Vaccine Being Voluntarily Offered To Workers Exposed To The Virus
- 23 Oct, 2001 -- At War Over Anthrax
Soldiers, Pentagon find vaccine source of contention, Vanessa Blum, Legal Times
- 23 Oct, 2001 -- Anthrax Vaccine's Liability Issue
BioPort suits face a difficult road, Matt Fleischer-Black and Bob Van Voris
The National Law Journal
- 3
May 2001 -- Press release -- FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED
TODAY CHALLENGING DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S ANTHRAX
VACCINATION IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM -- Action
Against Pentagon, FDA and Vaccine Manufacturer Seeks To
Declare Vaccine Experimental And Illegal By Its Current
Use
- LEGAL BRIEF -- Two
Air Force Reserve JAGs explain why the DoD Anthrax
Vaccine Immunization Program is a violation of federal
law and is therefore illegal.
- "An Act Prohibiting
The Administration Of Experimental Drugs And Vaccines
To Members Of The Connecticut Militia" (Connecticut
State General Assembly, Mar 2001, as amended)
- Canadian Court
Martial -- Dismissal of
charges against Canadian airman who refused anthrax
vaccine (trial testimony)
- 1 Jun 2000 -- Complaint filed
in US District Court, Denver, Colorado by US Army private
first class -- "...to prevent immediate,
substantial, and irreparable harm from Defendants'
pending decision to discharge her from the Army, on an
other than honorable ("OTH") basis, because of
Plaintiff's refusal to submit to a series of anthrax
vaccinations."
- 21 Feb 2000 -- Major
Bates' letter to BGen Randall Starbuck responding to the
Article 15 UCMJ action taken against him by the U.S. Air
Force
- 27 Dec 1999--
Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal's letter to
SecDef Cohen -- "The program apparently was
undertaken without any regard for the possible liability
of the states for the costs associated with Guardsmen who
may become ill..."
- Law, military -- USAF chief
Judge Advocate General letter to all Air Force defense
counsel and judges, 18 May 1999clients -- prejudicial
"undue command influence" -- pressures defense
counsel and judges to "educate" their using
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