United States Tenth Circuit

Liability of national park employees in a wrongful death action, arising from an accidental drowning, was foreclosed by the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2002
• Published 12/03/2002

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, ALDISERT, and PORFILIO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathryn Collard of the Law Firm of Kathryn Collard LC, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey E. Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney (Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, Carlie Christensen, Assistant United States Attorney, Salt Lake City, Utah, and G. Kevin Jones, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, of counsel, with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.