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ESTATE OF TRENTADUE EX REL. AGUILAR v. U.S.

Nos. 01-6444, 02-6037, 02-6030, 02-6051.

397 F.3d 840 (2005)

Kenneth Michael TRENTADUE, the ESTATE OF by and through its Personal Representative Carmen AGUILAR, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, and Carmen Aguilar Trentadue, individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kenneth Michael Trentadue and Guardian Ad Litem for Vito Miguel Trentadue; Wilma Lou Trentadue; Jesse James Trentadue; Donna Trentadue Sweeney; Lee Frederick Trentadue; Jesse Carl Trentadue, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Justice; Federal Bureau of Prisons; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants, Stuart Lee, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, Kenneth Freeman, Defendant-Cross-Appellee. United States of America, Amicus Curiae. Kenneth Michael Trentadue, the Estate of by and through its Personal Representative Carmen Aguilar; Carmen Aguilar Trentadue, individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kenneth Michael Trentadue and Guardian Ad Litem for Vito Miguel Trentadue; Wilma Lou Trentadue; Jesse James Trentadue; Donna Trentadue Sweeney; Lee Frederick Trentadue; Jesse Carl Trentadue, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. United States of America, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, and Department of Justice; Federal Bureau of Prisons; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Stuart Lee, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 3, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Robinson, Department of Justice (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Robert G. McCampbell, United States Attorney, and Robert S. Greenspan, Attorney, Department of Justice, with him on the briefs), Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees United States of America, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Bureau of Investigations, and for Amicus Curiae United States in support of Stuart Lee.

Robert D. Baron (Gloyd McCoy with him on the brief), Coyle, McCoy & Burton, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee Stuart Lee.

Charles P. Sampson, Suitter Axland (Joe B. Reynolds and R. Scott Adams, Adams & Associates, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs) Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Barry W. Nance, Kenneth R. Nance, filed a brief for Cross-Appellee Kenneth Freeman.

Before O'BRIEN, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals from an adverse judgment awarding the Estate of Kenneth M. Trentadue and members of Trentadue's family $1.1 million in damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-80 (2000), for the intentional infliction of emotional distress following Trentadue's death at a federal detention center in Oklahoma. Prison official Stuart A. Lee appeals the judgment entered on a jury verdict...

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