MURPHY v. UNITED STATES

Docket No. 04-6265-CV.

427 F.3d 158 (2005)

Kevin MURPHY, administrator of the ESTATE of Lawrence Martin PAYNE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin T. Green, New York, N.Y. (Jacqueline M. James, Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP, New York, N.Y.; Richard A. Bieder. Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Sandra S. Glover, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn. (Kevin J. O'Connor, U.S. Atty., Lauren M. Nash, William J. Nardini, Asst. U.S. Attys., on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: NEWMAN and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal concerns the availability of judicial review of a decision of the United States Air Force denying claims under the Military Claims Act ("MCA"), 10 U.S.C. §§ 2731-2738. The claims were brought by family members of federal employees who were killed in a crash of an Air Force plane in Bosnia in April 1996. See id. § 2733. The Air Force denied the MCA claims on the ground that the Federal Employees Compensation Act ("FECA...

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