Legal Opinion
Minns v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 2, 1998No. 97-2234PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge HOWARD joined.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
In preparation for Operation Desert Storm and the Persian Gulf War, the United States military inoculated its servicemen and exposed them to toxins and pesticides in anticipation of possible biological and chemical attacks by Iraq. The wives and children of three servicemen claim in this case that the military negligently administered and used “investigational” and defective drugs on the three servicemen, causing their children, who were born after…
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