Sandra K. Barnes and Robert E. Barnes v. United States

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

The government’s appeal from a judgment in a claim under the Swine Flu Act 1 tracks a narrow compass. It complains that the district court’s award of damages for lost future earnings was excessive and punitive because it did not account for future income taxes and was not reduced to present worth. We conclude that the district court’s fact finding was not clearly erroneous and that the court did not err in the selection, interpretation, or application of legal precepts. Accordingly, we affirm. 2

I

At the end of November 1976, Sandra Barnes, a young…