Hiersche, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hiersche, Deceased v. United States

C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Opinion of

Justice Stevens,

respecting the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari.

Petitioner asks us to resolve a recurring conflict- among the Courts of Appeals concerning the meaning of a once obscure sentence in §3 of the Mississippi River Flood Control Act of 1928. During the past decade that sentence has assumed greater and greater importance because it has provided the Government with a defense to claims for personal injury and death caused by federal negligence, gross negligence, and even “conscious governmental indifference to the safety of the…