Whether the three-year tolling provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2501 applies to legally disabled petitioners who bring claims before the United States Court of Federal Claims under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

QUESTION PRESENTED 28 U.S.C. § 2501, which is explicitly jurisdictional in that it applies to “[e]very claim of which the United States Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction,” provides that “[a] petition on the claim of a person under legal disability or beyond the seas at the time the claim accrues may be filed within three years after the disability ceases.” The question presented is... Whether the three-year tolling provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2501 applies to legally disabled petitioners who bring claims before the United States Court of Federal Claims under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-10, et seq.