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LITTLEFIELD v. U.S.

Nos. 89-16087, 89-16230.

927 F.2d 1099 (1991)

Lloyd LITTLEFIELD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-third-party plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc., Third-party-defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Cole, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Paul Wommer, Asst. U.S. Atty., Las Vegas, Nev., for defendant-third-party-plaintiff-appellant.

R. Jay Engel, Law Offices of R. Jay Engel, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee Littlefield.

Robert D. Vannah, Vannah & Roark, Las Vegas, Nev., for third-party-defendant-appellee Frontier-Kemper.

Before ALDISERT, KOZINSKI and NELSON, Circuit Judges.

THOMAS G. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

We must determine if the district court properly applied Nevada law in this Federal Tort Claims Act case when it held the United States liable for injuries suffered by a contractor's employee in an accident at the Hoover Dam in Nevada.

The United States appeals from an amended judgment awarding $1,035,150.78 to Lloyd Littlefield, an employee of Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc. Littlefield sued the United States under the...

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