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222126P.pdf 06/29/2023 Andrew Hutchinson v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-2126
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Kelly and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. The district court did not err in
concluding that the United States, if a private person, would not be
liable for plaintiff's son's injury because of Arkansas's recreational-use
statute; Arkansas's soccer-goal-safety statute does not change the result,
nor does plaintiffs' argument that the recreational-use statute should not
apply because only military personnel can use the field where the boy was
injured; any duties the United States owed plaintiffs as tenants in
military housing did not extend to the field; the recreational-use
statute's application is not limited to organizations and it covers
persons, such as plaintiffs.