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Racketeering Suit Against the American Academy of Pediatrics Awaits a Ruling on Dismissal
September 29, 2026
A vaccine-skeptic group accuses the nation's largest pediatric organization of fraud. None of it has been proven, and the case is still at the earliest stage.
Children's Health Defense (CHD) and five other plaintiffs sued the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), accusing it of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule. The case is Shaw v. American Academy of Pediatrics, No. 1:26-cv-00171. It was filed January 21, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and assigned to Judge Timothy J. Kelly.