United States Ninth Circuit

Sovereign immunity under the Feres doctrine does not apply where military personnel were killed while on a military-sponsored recreational activity off-base.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2000
• Decided 04/20/2001
• Published 04/20/2001

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Weppner, Law Office of J. Michael Koch and Associates, P.S., Inc., Silverdale, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lowell V. Sturgill Jr.,Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.