United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Bureau of Land Management is entitled to immunity, under the discretionary function exception, for injuries that occurred at the "Burning Man" festival in the Black Rock Desert.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/2000
• Decided 11/02/2000
• Published 11/02/2000

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WOOD, Jr.,KLEINFELD, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael M. Shea, Shea & Shea, San Jose, California, for plaintiff/appellant Daniel Reed, by and through his Conservator, Jolaine Allen.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert S. Mueller, III, and Gail Killefer and Yonkel Goldstein, United States Attorney's Office, San Jose, California, for defendant-appellee United States of America.