Legal Opinion
Curtis v. United States
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided August 3, 2017No. CIVIL ACTION FILE NUMBER 3:15-cv-176-TCBPublished
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Timothy C. Batten, Sr., United States District Judge
On February 22, 2014, Jeffrey Van Curtis was killed in an airplane crash at the LaGrange-Callaway Airport in LaGrange, Georgia. Curtis’s widow, Plaintiff Karen J. Curtis, and the administrator of his estate, Plaintiff Robert Rupenthal, brought this lawsuit against the United States of America pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”). Plaintiffs allege that negligence by the Civil Air Patrol—a United States Air Force Auxiliary—caused the crash that killed Curtis and fellow passengers Michael Rossetti and Willy Lutz.
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