Fried v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This action arises as a result of an accident at a nuclear research facility in Du-Page County, Illinois. The Argonne National Laboratory (“Laboratory”) is owned by the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago (“University”) under the terms of a contract between the United States, the University, and the Argonne Universities Association (“Association”), an association of universities involved in research at the Laboratory. The contract controls the direction, operation and management of the Laboratory and defines each…