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LaBARGE v. MARIPOSA COUNTY

No. 85-2300.

798 F.2d 364 (1986)

Jo Ann LaBARGE and Brandon LaBarge, a minor By and Through his Guardian Ad Litem, Jo Ann LaBarge, Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF MARIPOSA, and Roderic B. Sinclair, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, and Estate of George Patrick LaBarge, Third-Party Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Steven Lapham, Asst. U.S. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Sacramento, Cal., for U.S.

Charles K. Brunn, Phillip W. Harvey, John J. Hollenback, Jr., Brunn & Thayer, Modesto, Cal., for appellees.

Harvey G. Sherzer, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., Robert D. Batson, Denver, Colo., for Amicus Johns-Manville Sales.

Before CHAMBERS, SNEED and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from a judgment of the district court compelling contribution to the County of Mariposa for thirty percent of the tort settlement paid to the estates of three federal secret service agents who were killed when their automobile collided with a Mariposa County Sheriff's patrol car.

I.

On March 5, 1983 a patrol car driven by Sgt. Roderick Sinclair of the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department collided with...

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