Merck Waives Right To Respond To High Court Petition Over Untimely Gardasil Claims

( March 6, 2026, 10:42 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The manufacturer of the Gardasil vaccine on March 5 declined to respond to a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court filed by three women who claim that the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding that the women must first file in the Vaccine Act compensation program before suing in a district court and contend that the addition of the Gardasil vaccine to the Vaccine Injury Table was unconstitutional....