The U.S. Supreme Court will give out a verdict whether parents who claim that their kids have been diagnosed with severe health problems from vaccines can file a litigation against drug makers or not.

In the mean time, the Court has decided to hear an appeal from parents in Pittsburgh who want to file a case against Wyeth for the side effects of the medicines that their 6 month old daughter incurred after the usage of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine.

However, the lawsuit filed by Robalee and Russell Bruesewitz was ruled out by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia under the light of a 1986 federal law that debarred their accusations.

The 1986 federal law led to the establishment of a special vaccine court with an aim to protect drug manufacturing companies from court cases in order to make sure that the country has a stable vaccine supply.

Even though Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer Inc., won the case in the appeals court but it has has still urged the Supreme Court to hear the suit as they think that this lawsuit has brought up an important and persistent legal issue which should be actually decided on.

A brief statement issued by Pfizer expressed that they are actually content that the Court has agreed for the trial of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth.

Although the US government is always more considerate towards the drug manufacturers but still the present administration led by Obama has called up all the political parties to stand united on the issue related to the review of the case by the Supreme Court.

The Georgia Supreme Court is the only state appeals court in the country that has given a green signal for filling of the vaccine lawsuits. However this decision has been severely opposed in the case of Marcelo and Carolyn Ferrari. In the said case, the plaintiff claimed that their son suffered neurological damage after he was given vaccine booster shots manufactured by Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline which comprised of the preservative thimerosal.

The parents have withdrawn their suit in order to avoid adverse Supreme Court ruling but the ruling given out by the Georgia court about such similar cases is still valid.

Though yesterday the court has not given any verdict on the appeal filed by Glaxo/Wyeth appeal, but it is presumed that the final decision in the other Wyeth lawsuit will surely be followed in the Georgia case.

As per the case filed by the parents, the plaintiff Hannah Bruesewitz was a healthy child till the time she got the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine in April 1992. But within hours after taking the shots she was diagnosed with a series of debilitating seizures. As a result, Hannah now as a teenager suffers with residual seizure disorder.
However the vaccine court has already dismissed the claims raised by the family.