Legal Opinion
Bergman v. United States
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided February 7, 1984No. G 77-6PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON DAMAGES
ENSLEN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) are Dr. Walter Bergman and the personal representative of the estate of his late wife, Frances Bergman. Both Walter and Frances Bergman were among the “freedom riders” who traveled by bus into the South in May, 1961 to test a recent pronouncement by the United States Supreme Court that the Constitution required racial equality in interstate transportation facilities. Their encounter with a conspiracy of violent racism in Alabama was described in detail by this Court in an earlier…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Bennie Lenard, Cross-Appellant v. Robert Argento & Joseph Sansone v. Village of Melrose ParkCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- Norman Birnbaum, B. Leonard Avery and Mary Rule MacMillen Plaintiffs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Park v. City of AtlantaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
- Ruffalo v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1984
- Bergman v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1986
- Bergman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988
- Bergman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988
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