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ALLEN v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. C 79-0515.

527 F.Supp. 476 (1981)

Irene H. ALLEN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Utah, C. D.

August 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Haralson, Haralson, Kinerk & Morey, Tucson, Ariz., Stewart L. Udall, Phoenix, Ariz., Wayne Owens, Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, Utah, J. MacArthur Wright, Atkin & Wright, St. George, Utah, Duncan, Weinberg, Palmer & Miller, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Bruce E. Titus, Asst. Director, Pamela A. Hornett, Deborah C. Ratner, William R. Herman, Trial Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Henry A. Gill, Jr., Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel for General Litigation, U. S. Dept. of Energy, Washington, D. C., Ralph B. Johnson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER

JENKINS, District Judge.

The above-entitled action was brought by nearly 1,000 persons against the United States government for injuries alleged to have been individually sustained as a result of the government's program of open-air testing of nuclear weapons at its Nevada Test Site conducted from 1951 through 1962. The plaintiffs, residents of Utah, Nevada and Arizona, assert broad allegations of negligence on the part of federal...

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