***'Stop the Shot' Campaign Against H1N1 Vaccine Hits Federal and State Courts

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Meanwhile,http://www.millionmedmarch.com/index.htmlThe MillionMedMarch is Marching State by State.When: November 21, 2009 Where: All Major Cities For location and contact information please see our interactive Map We NeedLeaders in each state to organize at state capitals and other cities and recruit attendeesleaders to contact local media pre and post event for tv/radio/print interviewsleaders to get to local politicians who have to deal with increased medicaid enrollment and each state's US Sen./Rep. to inform them of disastrous features of the billdoctors in each state to get the message out to patients and doctors on the sidelines=====http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2940 & end=2960 & view=yes & id=3895#newspostThe National Law JournalOctober14, 2009'Stop the Shot' Campaign Against H1N1 Vaccine Hits Federal and State CourtsTresa BaldasA "stop the shot" campaign has hit federal and state courts. This past Friday, a group of New York doctors and health care workers asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to order the federal government not to distribute the H1N1 vaccine. Specifically, they're challenging the legality of the licensing of the swine flu vaccine, alleging it was approved too quickly without appropriate testing for safety and effectiveness.Furthermore, the plaintiffs, who filed their suit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, are seeking an immediate court order to halt mandated H1N1 flu shots in New York state. New York has ordered that all health care workers receive the H1N1 vaccine or risk losing their jobs.That mandate is also facing a legal challenge in New York state trial court in Manhattan, where a lawsuit on behalf of 60,000 state health care workers has been filed against the state health commissioner to halt the required flu shots. The state has vowed a fight.A similar lawsuit has been filed in the state of Washington, where the Washington State Nurses Association is suing a multifacility health care provider over a policy requiring nurses to get vaccinated for both the seasonal and swine flu."They don't want to be forced to take it. They know that it could be flawed," said Leslie Fourton, a New York solo practitioner who is one of several lawyers representing plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit in Washington.Those plaintiffs include a medical doctor who believes the vaccine is harmful, a nurse who has had adverse reactions to prior flu vaccines, a pregnant nurse's aide who fears the vaccine could harm her unborn child, and a student who has classes in health care settings and is citing religious reasons for not taking the vaccine.The plaintiffs also fear they'll be fired for not taking the vaccine, said Ralph Fucetola, a New Jersey lawyer working on the case. "They don't want to risk their jobs by not taking it. But these people literally are going to lose their livelihoods if they don't," he said.The Washington regulatory law firm of Swankin & Turner is also advising the New York health care plaintiffs.U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials declined comment on the pending litigation. But they did defend the agency's approval procedure for the H1N1 vaccine. "The FDA believes that this vaccine is safe and effective," said spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy. "The H1N1 vaccine is the same as the seasonal flu vaccine. It's just a strain of virus that's been changed ... and it's been given to hundreds of thousands -- if not hundreds of millions of people -- over the past 20 years."*************