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COVID vaccine liability lawsuit dismissed by rubber-stamp judicial panel that botched law: lawyer
Neither trial nor appeals court seems to understand the procedure for "willful misconduct" claims under the PREP Act, says lawyer for estate of college student who died from COVID vaccine.
Published: March 7, 2026 10:19pm
Who is responsible for deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines? According to an unusual judicial panel, it's not the federal agency largely responsible for the logistics of Operation Warp Speed, which rushed to develop novel mRNA products before the 2020 presidential election.
Designated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a "three-judge District Court" rubber-stamped a 2024 ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols that dismissed a lawsuit against then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin by the estate of a college student who died from heart inflammation induced by a pre-licensed vaccine.
The family of the late George Watts Jr. alleged the Pentagon conducted a "bait and switch" by falsely advertising Pfizer's emergency use authorization (EUA) vaccine, which Watts took to comply with his college mandate, as its fully licensed Comirnaty vaccine, a "deliberate and calculated mass-deception campaign" that amounts to "human experimentation without consent."
That "willful misconduct" by Austin, since replaced as defendant by War Secretary Pete Hegseth, preempts the Pentagon's legal shield under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, the estate's lawsuit argued.
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