Legal Opinion
Sigmund v. Starwood Urban Retail VI, LLC
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 17, 2010No. 08-7137PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
Solon, the ancient Athenian lawgiver, made no law against patricide because he thought it impossible that anyone could commit so unnatural a crime. Two and a half millennia later, Freud famously claimed the opposite—that every son harbors murderous impulses toward his father. In this case, we side with the lawyer not the psychoanalyst. Donald Sigmund, the accidental victim of a car bomb that his half-brother intended for their father, cannot recover from the third-party defendants he has sued unless his half-brother’s…
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- District of Columbia v. Beretta, U.S.A., Corp.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2005
- District of Columbia v. DoeDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
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