Minns v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOSEPH H. YOUNG, Senior District Judge.

I. Facts

The three consolidated cases pending before the Court were brought by the wives and minor children of servicemen involved in the Persian Gulf War. Plaintiffs allege that the minor children were afflicted with severe birth defects 1 caused by the exposure, without warning, of the servicemen to drugs, 2 pesticides, 3 and other unreasonably dangerous and toxic products used by the United States during the Persian Gulf War.

Plaintiffs seek damages of $20 million each from the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”),…