ROMAN v. TOWNSEND

No. 99-1977.

224 F.3d 24 (2000)

Carmen ROMAN; Jaime Echevarria; Conjugal Partnership, Echevarria-Roman; Jaime Echevarria-Roman (Minor); Yaika Alexandra Echevarria-Roman (Minor); Raisa Michelle Echevarria-Roman (Minor); Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Brian Keith TOWNSEND; Anthony Shope; John Doe; Peter Roe; Togo D. West, Secretary of the U.S. Army; Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 23, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Inserni, for appellants.

Fidel A. Sevillano-Del Rio, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellees.

Before STAHL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and GORTON, District Judge.


GORTON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants challenge the district court's dismissal of their amended complaint. After examining the record and the law, we affirm.

I. Background and Prior Proceedings

On November 29, 1994, Carmen Roman ("Roman"), with a car borrowed from a friend, proceeded to pick up her child from the Antilles Intermediate School located inside Fort Buchanan, a United States Army base. Because Roman and her husband, Jaime Echevarria...

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