Legal Opinion
Workman v. United Methodist Committee on Relief of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 25, 2003No. 01-7161PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Chief Judge:
Mary Ann Workman, the mother of a woman murdered in Somalia while on a mission for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), sued UMCOR, alleging that the defendant negligently failed to prepare her daughter for and protect her from the dangers of her assignment. We hold that the district court properly entered summary judgment for the defendant on the ground that Workman had failed to meet the “heightened foreseeability standard” applicable under the law of the District of Columbia to a case in which the harm…
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