The Research Laboratory is dedicated to inventing and making available tools that make legal practice and legal education more effective and more efficient. This effort includes:
- First, combining our logic investigations with state-of-the-art technology to create tools that can increase the efficiency of decision-making processes in society;
- Second, creating methods for training legal decision-makers and legal practitioners, as well as researchers and students, in the use of logic skills; and
- Third, developing management structures for coordinating teams of researchers, and for ensuring the quality of their research products.
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Scott v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of Special Masters, No. 03-2211V
Filed: August 21, 2006
- MMR vaccine
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (“APS”)
- Not entitled to compensation
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Sawyer v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of Special Masters, No. 03-2524V
Filed: June 22, 2006
- Tetanus vaccine
- Various hand, wrist, and arm injuries, including pain and numbness/tingling
- Not entitled to compensation
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Wolfe v. Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Office of Special Masters, No. 05-0878V
Filed: November 9, 2006
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Seizure disorder
- Not entitled to compensation
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Logic diagrams of rule trees enable users to visualize the logic of a large system of legal rules. The Lab creates software models that both display as rule tree diagrams and provide active templates for modeling the reasoning of individual legal decisions.
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The Federal Circuit’s Capizzano decision restated the three-pronged prima facie case of its decision in Althen, and added some important aspects to the test.
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In its Althen decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit established the legal rules that form the foundation for the Lab’s sample of Vaccine Act decisions. The Court formulated a three-pronged prima facie case for a petitioner who needs to prove causation in fact in an off-Table vaccine case.
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