Legal Opinion
Aragon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1998No. 97-2047PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRORBY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs-appellants, Mr. Domingo Ar-agon and other landowners residing southeast of the former Walker Air Force Base (“Plaintiffs”), filed a tort action pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b)(1), 2671-2680, alleging negligence and negligence per se relating to the contamination of their residential water wells. 1 The Government answered the complaint and filed a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1), claiming the discretionary function exception to the Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a),…
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