MN HF2862

Urges the President and Congress to remove United States Code, title 42, section 300aa-22(b)(1), which shields vaccine manufacturers from liability for design defects causing adverse side effects.

References the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the 2011 Brueswitz v. Wyeth Supreme Court decision that preempt design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers.

Asserts that individual human rights should outweigh pharmaceutical company profits and that individuals should be able to sue manufacturers for vaccine-related injuries.

Notes that the European Union allows evidence-based lawsuits holding vaccine manufacturers liable without destabilizing its health care system.

Directs Minnesota's Secretary of State to transmit copies of this memorial to the President, Congress members, the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Minnesota's congressional delegation.