UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
For the Fifth Circuit
No. 00-30192
Summary Calendar
CONNIE BRASSEAUX,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
VERSUS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court
For the Western District of Louisiana
(98-CV-2018)
October 4, 2000
Before DAVIS, JONES, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Connie Brasseaux (“Brasseaux”) was seriously injured on or
about August 28, 1998, when the wave runner she was riding went
over the Demopolis Dam on the Tombigbee River in Demopolis,
Alabama. Brasseaux filed suit on October 21, 1998, against the
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Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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United States alleging, among other causes of action, that the
United States, through the Corps of Engineers, was negligent in not
placing and maintaining adequate warning signs to indicate the
location of the Sixth Crest Spillway. The United States filed a
motion to dismiss, or in the alternative, motion for summary
judgment, based on the discretionary function exception to the
Federal Tort Claims Act as applied to the Suits in Admiralty Act.
The district court granted the motion to dismiss and judgment was
entered in favor of the United States. Brasseaux timely appeals.
We have carefully reviewed the briefs, the reply brief, the
record excerpts, and relevant portions of the record itself. For
the reasons stated by the district court in his ruling on
defendant’s motion to dismiss filed September 15, 1999, we affirm
the decision of the district court to grant the motion to dismiss
of the United States.
AFFIRMED.
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