US Prevails in Parents’ Attempt to Revive Covid Shot Claims

Texas, Florida, and North Carolina parents can’t sue the federal government to invalidate agency decisions that made Covid-19 vaccines available to minors, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

The parents lacked standing because they weren’t able to show that emergency use authorizations issued by the US Food and Drug Administration caused them concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent injuries, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in an unpublished, unsigned opinion.

The court affirmed dismissal of the complaint, saying that allegations of possible future injuries are usually disfavored. A threatened concrete injury must be “certainly impending” to ...