Legal Opinion
United States v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1987No. 85-2039PublishedCited by 334 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
This case presents the question whether the doctrine established in Feres v. United States, 340 U. S. 135 (1950), bars an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act on behalf of a service member killed during the course of an activity incident to service, where the complaint alleges negligence on the part of civilian employees of the Federal Government.
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Lieutenant Commander Horton Winfield Johnson was a helicopter pilot for the United States Coast Guard, stationed *683in Hawaii. In the early morning of January 7, 1982, Johnson’s Coast Guard station received a distress call from a boat lost in the…
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