What role do judges and the judicial system play in supporting freedom?

Freedom is not the only thing that we look to our judicial system to help with. For years studies have been done to find out if children's vaccines have strong side affects to certain types of children. Scientific studies have proven that some children not all are affected adversly to vaccines. Vaccines such as DTAP (Diptheria, Tetnus, and Pertusis), MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella), and even Varicella (Chicken Pox) have been linked to affects such as seizures, autism, and other disabilities.

So freedom is not the only thing that we look to the government and the judicial system for. We also look for protection. The Supreme Court ruled on February 22, 2011 that families whose children have suffered some adverse affect from a childhood vaccine cannot seek retribution from the pharmaceutical companies.  According to an article published by CBS News on February 23, 2011, "the court voted 6-2 against parents of a child who sued the drug maker Wyeth in the Pennsylvania state court, for diabilitating seizures their daugter has suffered for 19 years caused by the DTAP vaccine."  (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20034998-504083.html).

According to another article published by Homeland Security Newswire, on March 15, 2011 the ruling is prohibiting parents to seek strickter guidelines on the production of vaccines. As it stands now in the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Act, the Food and Drug Administration sets the guidelines for drug manufacturers. The guidelines are not strict enough. The law that was passed in 1986 by congress provided the Drug companies protection from parents legal cases.

We need our court systems to help us not throw our concerns out the window.