REED EX REL. ALLEN v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 99-15250.

231 F.3d 501 (2000)

Daniel REED, by and through his conservator, Jolaine ALLEN, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Pershing County; Pershing Co. Sheriff; Washoe County; Washoe County Sheriff; Avis Rent-A-Car; Larry Dean Hudson; Larry Dean Meyer; Larry D. Harvey, Individually dba: Burning Man Project; John Law, Individually dba: Burning Man Project; dba: Burning Man; Michael Mikel, Individually dba: Burning Man Project; dba: Burning Man; Fellini, Cronenburg and Dante; Black Rock Security Group; Black Rock Rangers, Defendants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Bureau of Land Management, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Shea, Shea & Shea, San Jose, California, for plaintiff/appellant Daniel Reed, by and through his Conservator, Jolaine Allen.

Robert S. Mueller, III, and Gail Killefer and Yonkel Goldstein, United States Attorney's Office, San Jose, California, for defendant-appellee United States of America.

Before: HARLING WOOD, Jr., ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted May 3, 2000 — San Francisco, California

WOOD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Daniel Reed was severely injured in the early morning hours of September 2, 1996, when a car ran over the tent in which he was sleeping. At the time of the accident, Reed was attending an event known as the Burning Man Festival, which was held on the desolate Black Rock Desert playa2 in Nevada. The playa is federally owned...

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