Gadd by and Through Gadd v. United States

I. INTRODUCTION

SAM, District Judge.

The court has before it the United States’s motion to dismiss and its alternative motion for summary judgment, as well as the motion for summary judgment of defendants State of Utah and The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources.

Briefly, the facts are as follows. On June 23,1992, plaintiffs were camping at the United States Forest Service’s Flintlock Campground 1 , situated within Wasatch County, Utah. Around midnight a black bear broke into a pickup truck camper shell in which plaintiff Krystal Gadd was sleeping and dragged her away. Krystal was rescued by…