ALERT: CM/ECF is currently unavailable for filing documents. The clerk's office therefore is deemed inaccessible. Pursuant to RCFC 6(a)(3), any document that is due to be filed this date, January 5, 2016, will be considered timely filed tomorrow, January 6, 2016.

On October 19, 2015 Chief Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith of the United States Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) announced the appointment of Mindy Michaels Roth as Special Master of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (Vaccine Program) within the USCFC. Special Master Roth will carry out the functions authorized by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to -34, including the conduct of proceedings to determine compensation under the Vaccine Program.