Legal Opinion
Thomas W. Huffman v. United States of America United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1996No. 95-5234PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs appeal from an order granting summary judgment to the United States in their suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2674, claiming that noise emitting from a United States Post Office constitutes a nuisance under Kentucky law. The District Court held that plaintiffs’ claim was barred by the FTCA statute of limitations. For the following reasons, we REVERSE.
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The Landmark Inn and the Pikeville Post Office stand next to each other on North Mayo Trail, in Pikeville, Kentucky. The post office was built in 1960, when the Inn was already in…
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