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GRACI v. UNITED STATES

No. 29015.

456 F.2d 20 (1971)

Benjamin T. GRACI, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant. Philip C. CIACCIO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant. Emanuel REID, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 21, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Morton Hollander, Chief, Appellate Section, Kathryn H. Baldwin, Robert V. Zener, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Evangeline M. Vavrick, New Orleans, La., Amicus Curiae.

Jerald N. Andry, Gibson Tucker, Jr., Joseph J. Laura, Jr., Ignatz G. Kiefer, Charles G. Jacques, Jr., James F. Mulla, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and WISDOM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

In storm and fury "Betsy's" winds and resulting high waters wrought destruction upon the plaintiffs' property and that of many others living in 1965 in Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico.

These three consolidated cases present the single question whether the immunity clause contained in § 3 of the federal Flood Control Act of 1928, 33 U.S.C. § 702c, applies to these actions under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §...

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