Genoveva Canseco, as Widow and Personal Representative of the Estate of Fortino Canseco, and Legion Insurance Co. v. United States

ORDER

Genoveva Canseco brought a wrongful death action against the United States. The ease was tried to the court sitting without a jury, between October 19 and October 27, 1992. After the trial concluded, the parties submitted post-trial briefs. Twenty-two months later, the district court judge who presided at the trial filed findings of fact and entered judgment for the United States. The court’s findings were, with few changes, the findings proposed by the government. The district court judge then retired.

Canseco filed a motion for a new trial. She contended the trial judge clearly erred in…