Legal Opinion

Sonja Lujan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kimberly Lujan, Deceased v. Regents of the University of California

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided November 8, 1995No. 94-2051PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JENKINS, Senior District Judge.

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for the death of her daughter, allegedly as a result of exposure to radioactive and other hazardous substances released into the environment from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The district court held that the plaintiffs state-law claims were subsumed into her so-called public liability claim under the federal Price-Anderson Act and that the plaintiffs public liability claim was untimely. We agree that the plaintiffs public liability claim was untimely. We farther conclude that her independent state-law claims…

2Cases cited84 opinions

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  5. Hanna v. PlumerSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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3Cited by33 opinions

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