TRENTON — The state Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a man claiming polio vaccines he had received as a child caused a cancerous brain tumor cannot go forward.

Jamie Gannon filed the suit in 2003 against the makers of the vaccines - American Home Products, American Cyanamid Company, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Lederle Laboraties.

The vaccines were administered on five occasions by an Upper Darby, Pa. doctor, when Gannon was between the ages of one and three.

A Bergen County judge originally dismissed the suit in 2008, on the grounds that Gannon had failed to identify the makers of the vaccines. Two years later, however, an appeals court reversed the decision, breathing new life into the suit.

In their ruling, the Supreme Court sided with an earlier federal court's decision that stressed Gannon's lack of ability to establish a clear causal relationship between the vaccines and his tumor.

Read the court's full decision here.

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