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BERGMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. G 77-6.

579 F.Supp. 911 (1984)

Walter BERGMAN and James Drummond, Personal Representative of the Estate of Frances Bergman, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America; Barrett G. Kemp, individually and as a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas J. Jenkins, individually and as a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

February 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Goodman, Elizabeth Gleicher, Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian, Neal Bush, Bush, Bennett & Magid, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.

R. Joseph Sher, Nicki L. Koutsis, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

OPINION ON DAMAGES

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) are Dr. Walter Bergman and the personal representative of the estate of his late wife, Frances Bergman. Both Walter and Frances Bergman were among the "freedom riders" who traveled by bus into the South in May, 1961 to test a recent pronouncement by the United States Supreme Court that the Constitution required racial equality in interstate transportation...

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