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081212P.pdf   05/06/2009  Virgil Wilkinson, etc.  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1212
   District of North Dakota - Bismarck   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bowman and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. For the court's prior opinion in
   the matter, see Wilkinson v. United States, 440 F.3d 970 (8th Cir. 2006).
   The district court erred in finding that the BIA's leasing of plaintiffs'
   property allotments was a conversion of their farming equipment as the
   leasing, alone, was insufficient to constitute an actionable degree of
   interference rising to the level of a forced sale of the equipment to the
   BIA; prejudgment interest is not available under the Federal Tort Claims
   Act; non-economic damage award for emotional distress is affirmed.