Lloyd Verl Greenhalgh Deann Greenhalgh, Husband and Wife v. United States of America, Through the Department of the Air Force

82 F.3d 422 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Lloyd Verl GREENHALGH; Deann Greenhalgh, husband and wife, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Through the DEPARTMENT OF the AIR FORCE, Defendant-Appellant. No. 94-36246. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 4, 1996. Decided April 11, 1996. Before: FLETCHER, JOHN T. NOONAN, Jr., and RYMER, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 The United States appeals an award of $905,036 under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA") to Lloyd Verl Greenhalgh and DeAnn Greenhalgh for damages relating to injuries Lloyd sustained when the scaffolding on which he was working collapsed. The district court found that the collapse was caused by a sonic boom generated by an Air Force SR-71 jet and that the jet was flying at supersonic speed below 30,000 feet at the time of the boom, in violation of Air Force Regulation 55-34. We conclude that these findings were not clearly erroneous and,…