Fried v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

The facts and procedural history of this Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) action were detailed in our earlier opinion, Fried v. United States, 579 F.Supp. 1212 (N.D.Ill.1983). {“Fried I”), and will be briefly noted only to the extent that they bear upon the issues presently before us. In Fried I we held that the United States had sufficient control over the operation of Argonne National Laboratory (“ANL”) — the nuclear research facility where plaintiff Fried was allegedly injured — -to subject it to liability under Illinois law, thus bringing the…