IN RE FORT TOTTEN METRORAIL CASES

Case No. 10mc314 (RBW).

756 F.Supp.2d 139 (2011)

In the Matter of the FORT TOTTEN METRORAIL CASES Arising Out of the Events of June 22, 2009. Lead Case: Jenkins, v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. This Document Relates To: All Cases.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Lapidus , Karp, Frosh, Lapidus, Wigodsky & Norwind, P.A., Allan M. Siegel , Alton C. Hale , Ira Sherman , Joseph Cammarata , Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Seigel, P.C., Brian Keith McDaniel, McDaniel & Associates, David E. Haynes , Stephen D. Annand , The Cochran Firm, Harlow R. Case , Karen E. Evans , Jack Harvey Olender , Melissa Rhea , Sandra H. Robinson , Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C., James Charles Bailey , Jason H. Ehrenberg , Bailey & Ehrenberg PLLC, Keith W. Watters , Keith Watters & Associates, Kim D. Brooks-Rodney , Cohen & Cohen, Michael Harris Feldman , Michael Moureau Wilson , Patrick M. Regan , Regan Zambri & Long, PLLC, Richard A. Bussey , Stein, Mitchell & Muse, Victor E. Long , Regan, Zambri & Long, PLLC, Washington, DC, Anna C. Huff Brunkenhoefer , Greg W. Turman , R. Blake Brunkenhoefer , Brunkenhoefer, Almaraz & Turman, PLLC, Corpus Christi, TX, J. Stephen Simms , Marios John Monopolis , Simms & Showers LLP, Baltimore, MD, J. Mitchell Lambros , Lambros & Lambros, Cockeysville, MD, Joseph Alexander Malouf , Gaithersburg, MD, Laurin H. Mills , LeClair Ryan , Alexandria, VA, Lawrence M. Mann , Alper & Mann, Bethesda, MD, P. Matthew Darby , Berman Sobin Gross Feldman & Darby LLP, Towson, MD, W. Charles Bailey , Simms Showers, LLP, Maryland, MD, for Plaintiffs.

Brendan H. Chandonnet , Mark F. Sullivan , Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC, Jason R. Waters , Robert Bruce Wallace , William G. Gandy , Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, McLean, VA, for Defendants.


Memorandum Opinion

REGGIE B. WALTON, District Judge.

This opinion addresses an issue that remained unresolved after the November 4, 2010 hearing on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's ("WMATA") motion to dismiss Counts IV and XIII of the plaintiffs' Second Amended Master Complaint ("Compl."), alleging Negligence—Disabling of Warning Alarms in the Operations Control Center based on the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The Court now...

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