Legal Opinion
Arpin Ex Rel. Estate of Arpin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 8, 2008No. 07-1079, 07-1106PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs husband was a patient at the Belleville Family Practice Clinic, in southern Illinois. The clinic is jointly operated by the U.S. Air Force and St. Louis University, the defendants in this suit for wrongful death arising from alleged medical malpractice. Our jurisdiction over the United States is conferred by the Federal Tort Claims Act, and the claim against the university is within both the supplemental jurisdiction of the district court, 28 U.S.C. § 1367, and the court’s diversity jurisdiction. After a three-day bench trial, the district judge found the…
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