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BERKMAN v. U.S.

No. 91-3037.

957 F.2d 108 (1992)

Monroe E. BERKMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant & Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ARROW GENERAL, INCORPORATED, Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Franklin Mains, Mains & Mains, Alexandria, Va., argued, for Berkman.

Dennis Edward Szybala, Asst. U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., argued for appellees (Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief for U.S., William Joseph Carter, Carr, Goodson & Lee, P.C., Fairfax, Va., on brief, for Arrow General).

Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HARVEY, Senior District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

While disembarking from a mobile lounge to the terminal at Washington's Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, Monroe E. Berkman slipped on hydraulic fluid that escaped from a door mechanism and fell, injuring himself. He sued the United States for negligence under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680 (1988), as the airport facilities were owned and operated by the Federal...

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