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984167P.pdf   02/22/2000  Helen Havrum  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  98-4167
                          and No:  98-4168
   Western District of Missouri   
   Civil Case; Federal Tort Claims Act. Government hospital liable for
   failing to protect veteran in veteran's hopsital from nurse. Government
   challenges sufficiency of evidence that nurse killed veterans. Trial
   court findings not clearly erroneous and judgment affirmed. Cross-appeal
   for denial of attorneys fees under Equal Access to Justice Act affirmed,
   as bad-faith conduct did not prove to be a measurable impediment to 
   lawsuit.