Sigman
Sigman v. United States
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Schroeder, J.
ORDER
The United States has filed a Petition for Rehearing and/or Clarification. Rehearing is not appropriate. The opinion filed on March 29, 2000 in this matter resolves only the jurisdictional issues raised by the government’s invocation of sovereign immunity, and on remand, the government is not precluded from intro- *790 during evidence to establish it complied with applicable standards and regulations.
The slip opinion filed March 29, 2000 is amended as follows:
Slip op. 3587 [ 208 F.3d 760 ], replace text of first full paragraph starting at line 12 with the following:
Slip op. 3592-3 [208 F.3d. at 769-70], replace sentence starting at bottom of p. 3592 [208 F.3d at 772] with the following:
Slip op. 3594 [208 F.3d at 773], replace sentence starting at line 8 with the following:
The Petition for Rehearing and/or Clarification is otherwise DENIED.
OPINION
On June 20, 1994, less than one month after his honorable discharge from the United States Air Force, Dean Mellberg entered Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington and opened fire, killing 4 people and wounding 23 others. The dead included two doctors who had months earlier diagnosed Mellberg as dangerous.…