IN RE FEMA TRAILER FORMALDEHYDE PRODUCTS LIABILITY

No. 10-30451.

646 F.3d 185 (2011)

In re FEMA TRAILER FORMALDEHYDE PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. Alana Alexander, Individually and on behalf of Christopher Cooper and Erica Alexander, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United States of America, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Edward Meunier , Justin I. Woods , Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Dennis Craig Reich, Sr. Litig. Counsel (argued), Reich & Binstock, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John Adam Bain, Sr. Trial Atty. (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Adam Michael Dinnell , Trial Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Environmental Torts, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Alana Alexander (Alexander) brought this Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680, action on behalf of her minor son, Christopher Cooper (Cooper), against the Government for injuries allegedly related to Cooper's exposure to potentially dangerous, high levels of formaldehyde in their Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided emergency housing unit (hereinafter EHU or trailer)...

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