ANDRULONIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-CV-847.

593 F.Supp. 1336 (1984)

Joanna ANDRULONIS, as Conservator of the Property of Jerome Andrulonis, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America; Glatt Air Techniques, Inc.; Glatt GmbH (Germany); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Inc.; Warf Institute, Inc.; Raltech Scientific Services, Inc.; Ralston Purina Company; Eli Lilly and Company; and John L. Thompson and Sons and Company, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

October 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roemer & Featherstonhaugh, Albany, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Dean J. Higgins, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Anderson Russell Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City, Paul F. Donahue Associates, Albany, N.Y., for defendant Glatt GmbH (Germany); Irene C. Warshauer, Marcy Louise Kahn, Robert P. Reichman, New York City, of counsel.

Carter, Conboy, Bardwell, Case & Blackmore, Albany, N.Y., for defendant Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; Jeffrey J. Tymann, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, Albany, N.Y., for defendants, Raltech Scientific Services, Inc. and Ralston Purina Co.; Paul Scanlan, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Maynard, O'Connor & Smith, Schenectady, N.Y., for defendant Warf Institute, Inc.; Richard Gershon, Schenectady, N.Y., of counsel.

Ainsworth, Sullivan, Tracy & Knauf, Albany, N.Y., for defendants Eli Lilly and Co. and John L. Thompson & Sons & Co.; Thomas F. Tracy, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Galef & Jacobs, New York City, for defendant Glatt Air Techniques, Inc.; Christopher M. Houlihan, New York City, of counsel.

Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., for defendant New York State Dept. of Health; William Fanciullo, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kevan J. Acton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Torts Branch, Washington, D.C., for U.S.; Lizabeth A. McKibben, Trial Atty., Washington, D.C., of counsel.


ORDER

MUNSON, Chief Judge.

The defendant United States has renewed its Rule 12(b) motion to dismiss or for summary judgment under Rule 56 following the recent decision by the Supreme Court on the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) (1982), [FTCA], United States v. S.A. Empresa DeViacao Aerea Rio Grandense (Varig Airlines), ___ U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 2755, 81 L.Ed.2d 660 (1984), [Varig]. The...

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