Legal Opinion
Poindexter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 26, 1985No. 85-4080PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Robert and Earnestine Poindexter appeal the dismissal of their Military Claims Act suit by the district court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.
Facts and Proceedings Below
As alleged in the complaint, on March 19, 1980, Sharon Lynn Poindexter Walker, an Army enlisted woman, and her three-year-old son Daimon Jamol Poindexter, were found dead in their apartment at the United States Army Base in Frankfurt, West Germany; Jerome Walker, her husband, an Army enlisted man who lived in the apartment with Sharon and Daimon, was subsequently convicted…
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