Legal Opinion
Bobby Bell, Kathleen Bell, and Sunwest Bank of Albuquerque, N.A., as Conservator of the Estate of Joseph Bell, a Minor v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1997No. 96-2107PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs brought this action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2674, for personal injuries Joseph Bell sustained while diving at Ute Reservoir. While diving at the reservoir, Bell, then fourteen years old, allegedly hit his head on a submerged dirt embankment covering a pipeline. His injury rendered him a • quadriplegic. Plaintiffs allege that Bell was injured by the negligence of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (the “Bureau”), which had provided engineering services to the state of New Mexico for an expansion of the…
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