United States Ninth Circuit

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is not immune under the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act for failing to supervise logging operation where it contractually retained the right to supervise logging contractor.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/05/2000
• Decided 03/07/2001
• Published 03/07/2001

Judges

• FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALARCON, FERGUSON, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Monte D. Beck,Beck & Richardson, Bozeman, Montana;  Joe Bottomly, Bottomly Law Offices, Kalispell, Montana, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. Odgen, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C.;   Sherry S. Matteucci, U.S. Attorney, Washington, D.C.;  Mark B. Stern and Steven I. Frank, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.