AASKOV v. ALDRIDGE

Civ. A. No. 88-0221-LFO.

695 F.Supp. 595 (1988)

Kaj AASKOV, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edward C. ALDRIDGE, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 25, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Z. Roisman, Ann C. Yahner, Richard S. Lewis, Cohen, Milstein & Hausfeld, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Vincent M. Garvey, Jerome L. Epstein, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

165 Danish citizens and one American citizen filed claims with the U.S. Air Force on January 19, 1988, seeking damages from injuries stemming from the January 21, 1968 crash near Thule, Greenland, of a U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber carrying four 1.1 megaton hydrogen bombs. Plaintiffs sought consideration by a foreign claims commission pursuant to the Foreign Claims Act, 10 U.S.C. § 2734 (1982...

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