Legal Opinion
Manny Lopez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 26, 2015No. 14-2159PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Manny Lopez brought this negligence claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680, arising from a traffic accident between a vehicle in which he was a passenger and a United States Postal Service tractor trailer driven by Robert Cleveland. The only live witnesses at a trial to the district court 1 wére Lopez and St. Louis police officer Janet McKern who had responded to the accident; Cleveland had meanwhile died from unrelated causes. After trial the court rejected the claim by Lopez that Cleveland’s negligence caused the accident, and judgment…
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