Legal Opinion
Andrade v. Chojnacki
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 15, 2003No. 01-50154PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, some of the survivors and estates of Branch Davidians who died during the 1993 conflict at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas, attempted to prove at trial that the United States government should be held liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) for deaths and injuries of Branch Davidian sect members during the siege of their compound outside Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993. The court, after a month-long trial, rejected their case. The court found that the government’s planning of the siege — i.e. the decisions to use tear gas against the Davidi-ans;…
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