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WILLIAMS v. PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE

No. CV-R-84-277-ECR.

625 F.Supp. 1457 (1986)

Cheryl L. WILLIAMS, Special Administratrix of the Estate of Mitchell Conrad Smith, Estate of Mitchell Conrad Smith, Louanne Eben and Ronald B. Smith, Plaintiffs, v. PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE OF the PYRAMID LAKE RESERVATION, an American Indian Tribe; et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Nevada.

January 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Bath and David R. Houston, Reno, Nev., and John Echeverria, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

David R. Grundy, Reno, Nev., for Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation; The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe; Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal council; Roy Garcia, Wilfred Shaw; Clifford Davis; William Wadsworth; Warren Tobey; Gordon Frazier; Lorena Eben; Robert James; Albert Phoenix; Fred John; Della John; Debra Harry; Marvin Wright, Sr.; Joe Ely; Rosalie Dunn & Glorena Guerrero.

Robert A. McQuaid, Reno, Nev., for Pyramid Lake Indian Tribal Enterprises.

Don Nomura, Reno, Nev., for Elwood Lowery.

ORDER

EDWARD C. REED, JR., District Judge.

Plaintiffs seek damages for the alleged wrongful death of an eight-year-old boy. The child, an Indian, found an unexploded firework on the shore of Pyramid Lake within the exterior boundaries of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Tribe. The boy took the firework home where he exploded it with a match. He died shortly thereafter from the injuries he sustained.

Several defendants now move this Court to dismiss...

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