Legal Opinion
Mary Sue Sexton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 6, 1987No. 86-5677PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs Mary Sue and Talmon Sexton have suffered as severe a loss as a parent Can. Their son Dwayne died of leukemia at the age of six, after a three-year struggle against the disease. They and their son’s estate have brought suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq. (1982), claiming medical malpractice by federal government doctors at a clinic run by the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies (later Oak Ridge Associated Universities) (“Oak Ridge”), a…
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