Legal Opinion
Doe v. United States
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided February 11, 1982No. 81-1435-Civ-JLKPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER SETTING FORTH FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
JAMES LAWRENCE KING, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
On Sunday, June 24, 1979, plaintiff Jane Doe was forcibly raped in a United States Post Office located at 16400 West Dixie Highway, North Miami Beach, Florida. Jane Doe’s assailant was subsequently apprehended, convicted, and sent to jail for his crime.
As a consequence of her rape, Jane Doe brought suit against the Government 1 claiming that it was negligent in failing to adequately protect her, as a postal patron, from violent criminal acts.
The Court conducted a non-jury trial on this…
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- Jane Doe, Cross-Appellant v. United States of America, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983