Legal Opinion
Abernathy v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1985No. 84-1957PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
On May 20, 1979, Scottie Abernathy was beaten to death by Thomas Voice with a baseball bat. Voice is an epileptic with organic brain syndrome who has been treated by the Indian Health Service and by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Department of Social Services, and who once was taken into custody by a Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman on charges of assault and battery. Larry Abernathy filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act on behalf of the estate of his son, Scottie Abernathy. The complaint alleged that because the United States had knowledge of Voice’s violent…
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