IODICE v. U.S.

Nos. 01-1640, 01-1651 and 01-1654.

289 F.3d 270 (2002)

Aline Joan IODICE; James Iodice; Mary J. Iodice, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency of the United States of America, Defendants-Appellees. Barbara Hansen, Administratrix of the Estate of Julie Marie Hansen, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Defendant-Appellee. R. Kenneth Babb, Ancillary Public Administrator of the Estate of Maia Cory Witzl, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Department Of Veterans Affairs, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 2, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David D. Daggett, Lewis & Daggett, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Robert Mauldin Elliot, Elliot, Pishko, Gelbin & Morgan, P.A., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Gill Paul Beck, Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Defendants-Appellees.

ON BRIEF: Rodney A. Guthrie, Bennett & Guthrie, P.L.L.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Benjamin H. White, Jr., United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WILKINS, MICHAEL, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge MICHAEL joined.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge.

On September 4, 1996, Richard Thomas Jones, when driving his car while severely impaired by alcohol and prescription drugs, crashed into a car carrying several college students. The accident seriously injured Aline Joan Iodice, and killed two other students, Julie Marie Hansen and Maia Cory Witzl...

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