WU TIEN LI-SHOU v. U.S.

No. 14-1206.

777 F.3d 175 (2015)

WU TIEN LI-SHOU, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Timothy Burke Shea , Nemirow Hu & Shea, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Douglas Neal Letter , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr. , Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorney General, Anne Murphy , Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Rod J. Rosenstein , United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge KING joined.


Wu Tien Li-Shou, a citizen of Taiwan, seeks damages from the United States for the accidental killing of her husband and the intentional sinking of her husband's fishing vessel during a NATO counter-piracy mission. The district court dismissed the action under the political question and discretionary function doctrines...

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