K.W. THOMPSON TOOL CO., INC. v. U.S.

No. 87-1536.

836 F.2d 721 (1988)

K.W. THOMPSON TOOL COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Shaughnessy with whom John Wall, Cullen & Wall, Boston, Mass., Steven Gordon and Shaheen, Cappiello, Stein & Gordon, Concord, N.H. were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Howard S. Scher, Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., with whom Robert S. Greenspan, Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., and Richard V. Wiebusch, U.S. Atty., Concord, N.H. were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before BOWNES and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and CAFFREY, Senior District Judge.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, K.W. Thompson Tool Company, Inc. (KWT), filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680, against the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and six individual former or present EPA employees, based upon alleged negligent acts and/or omissions of defendants in connection with a criminal prosecution instituted against KWT and three of its officers...

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