Legal Opinion
Lesa M. Primeaux, Formerly Known as Lesa M. Lamont, Formerly Known as Lisa M. Bad Wound v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 26, 1996No. 96-1470PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1460LAY, Circuit Judge.
I
In this appeal, Lesa Primeaux seeks damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(a), 2671 et seq. (FTCA), arising from a sexual assault by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) police officer Kenneth Michael Scott. On November 9, 1991, at approximately 1:00 a.m., Primeaux, then twenty-one years old, was driving on a South Dakota highway. While she was trying to turn her car around, it became stuck in a snowbank. After an unsuccessful attempt to free her vehicle, she began walking toward the nearest town of Martin, South Dakota.
Scott, driving a white government…
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