Five people who said they suffered injuries from a Covid-19 vaccine lacked standing to bring a constitutional challenge to certain provisions of the federal public health emergency act, a federal court said.
The relief the plaintiffs sought against the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act likely wouldn’t solve their problems, the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said Tuesday.
Lawsuits concerning the Covid-19 pandemic are still making their way through the courts, including this one, which challenged the law’s provisions immunizing the makers of covered countermeasures—such as vaccines—from liability except for claims made through its compensation program. ...