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- Title: Brown v. Lucky Stores
- Author : Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 17, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
Description
This tort case is a suit stemming from a personal tragedy. Nollie Costo and Christopher Graham drowned during an employer-sponsored rafting trip, and their estates sued their employer for negligence. But their employer is not an ordinary one. It is the United States Navy. Thus, the suit is barred unless the United States has waived its sovereign immunity. To determine whether the suit can properly proceed, we must confront--yet again--the Feres doctrine, which limits the United States waiver of sovereign immunity. We conclude that this suit falls within the doctrines ever-expanding reach. We reach this conclusion only reluctantly, bound by circuit precedent to apply this doctrine to yet another case that seems far removed from its original purposes.