Legal Opinion
Louis Kalavity, Administrator of the Estate of Dorsie H. Kitchen, Jr., Deceased v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 10, 1978No. 76-2579, 76-2580PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff’s husband was one of sixteen parachutists who drowned in Lake Erie August 27, 1967, as a result of the negligence of a federal air traffic controller at an Ohio airport near Oberlin. The parachutist’s next-of-kin successfully established liability against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b), in Freeman v. United States, 509 F.2d 626 (6th Cir. 1975), and the District Court has now awarded damages in this case in the amount of $250,000 from which award both sides have appealed. The only issues remaining are whether in a suit…
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- Downs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
- Sam H. Johnson v. Penrod Drilling Company, James L. Starnes v. Penrod Drilling CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Marion Domeracki v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Culver v. Slater Boat Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Raymond A. Shaw and Karen L. Shaw, Husband and Wife, Individually, and as Guardians Ad Litem of Richard Scott Shaw, a Minor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Wallace C. Clissold and Ingebord Clissold v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1979
- Janet L. Harden and James M. Harden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Reilly v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1987
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