 In 2002, the court instituted the Omnibus Autism Proceeding in which plaintiffs were allowed to proceed with the three cases they considered to be the strongest before a panel of special masters.In each of the cases, the panel found that the plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate a causal effect between the MMR vaccine and autism.Following this determination, the vaccine court has routinely dismissed such suits, finding no causal effect between the MMR vaccine and autism.