Legal Opinion
United States v. State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1980No. 77-4043PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRASK, Circuit Judge:
On May 20, 1973, the federal government fought a fire in the Stanislaus National Forest in the State of California. This fire was allegedly caused by employees of the California Ecology Corps when they built and failed to properly extinguish a campfire. The fire burned 179 acres of national forest land and 56 acres of private land before it was extinguished.
The earliest claim submitted to the State of California for the costs of suppressing the fire was filed by the federal government on June 14, 1974. Three months later the government estimated the amount of its claim at…
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