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DIMITRY v. U.S.

No. 89-4584 Summary Calendar.

893 F.2d 666 (1989)

Opal Neighbors DIMITRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Bruscato, Bruscato, Loomis & Street, Monrle, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

John R. Halliburton, Asst. U.S. Atty., Joseph S. Cage, Jr. U.S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before REAVLEY, KING and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Opal Neighbors Dimitry brought this federal tort action against the United States of America for the alleged wrongful death of her husband, Mitchell James Dimitry, while he was a patient at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana ("VA"). The district court dismissed the suit on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the negligence of the VA employees was the cause in fact of the decedent...

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