United States Eighth Circuit

In a tort action arising from an airplane crash, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where defendant federally employed flight service station (FSS) did not negligently provide weather information to plaintiff's decedent because the fact that a specialist must provide "accurate and complete" weather information does not mean that a specialist must provide a pilot with every detail from every relevant weather source.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2009
• Published 09/16/2009

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, EBEL and CLEVENGER , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Collin E. Wrabley, argued, Pittsburgh, PA (James C. Martin, Pittsburgh, PA; Patrick E. Bradley, Princeton, NC; and Daniel J. Connolly, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Aaron Kirsch, Asst. U.S. Atty., Department of Justice, argued, Washington, DC (Gregory G. Katsas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank J. Magill, Jr., Acting U.S. Atty., and David W. Fuller, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, DC, on the brief), for appellee U.S., Darrold E. Persson, argued, Hibbing, MN (Edward J. Matonich and David Alden Arndt, I, Hibbing, MN, on the brief), for appellee Gartland.