Viewing page 131 of 267

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

-121-

[[underlined]] Foster [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] Ripley [[/underlined]] (termination of employment) - Filed August 1976 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia.  District Court decision (August 23, 1979) appealed by plaintiff.  Decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals pending.

[[underlined]] Harden [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] United States [[/underlined]] (tort claim) - filed January 1980 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia.  Trial set for September 19, 1980.

[[underlined]] Hart [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution [[/underlined]] (probate of estate) - Filed October 1978 in the Probate Court of the District of Columbia.  Approval of the final accounting of the executor of the Thomas estate pending.

[[underlined]] Lucas [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] Ripley [[/underlined]] (class action - sex and racial discrimination) - filed July 1978 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia.  Decisions on cross motions for summary judgment and petition for denial of class certification pending.

[[underlined]] Scherer [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] Ripley [[/underlined]] (sex discrimination) - Filed October 1977 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia.  Trial held November 7-8, 1979.  Decision of the court pending.

[[underlined]] Thomas [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] United States [[/underlined]] (patent infringement) - Filed January 1980 in the U.S. Court of Claims.  Pretrial discovery proceedings in process.

[[underlined]] United States [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] Tougas [[/underlined]] (to recover proceeds of sales of federal excess property) - Filed October 1976 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Arizona (Tucson Division).  Pretrial discovery proceedings in process (after denial of motion for summary judgment of the United States).

CASES DISPOSED OF:

1.  [[underlined]] Disposition of Old Woman Mountains Meteorite [[/underlined]]

The Old Woman Mountains meteorite was found in 1976 by private individuals on Federal land in Southern California under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.  It was transferred by the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution for accessioning into the National Collections.  Subsequent litigation, in which the finders, the Museum of the County of San Bernardino, and the State of California have asserted ownership, reached the procedural stage of oral argument on the merits before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on January 9, 1980.  On May 15, 1980, the Ninth Circuit