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Plaintiffs seek approximately F. 427,000 in damages. The case is being handled by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has hired an attorney in Paris to represent the Institution.

8. [[underlined]] In re the Estate of William H. Burnette [[/underlined]] (petition for instructions as to the proper distribution of certain art work and WWI memorabilia bequeathed to the SI Anacostia Neighborhood Museum) - Filed January 1986 in the Probate Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Settlement negotiations are in progress.

9. [[underlined]] Mahan v. United States [[/underlined]] (tort claim for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff from a fall on July 2, 1985, when exiting an elevated exhibition on the third floor of the National Museum of American History) - Filed November 30, 1987, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division). Plaintiff seeks $350,000 in damages. Pretrial discovery proceedings are under way.

10. [[underlined]] Posley v. United States [[/underlined]] (tort claim for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff from a fall in the National Air and Space Museum on February 7, 1987) - Filed November 4, 1987, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiff seeks $100,000 in damages. Pretrial discovery proceedings are under way.

11. [[underlined]] Smith v. McKinnon, Smithsonian Institution, et al. [[/underlined]] (contest of the Last Will and Testament of Laura Isabelle O'Dea, under which the Smithsonian is the principal beneficiary of the estate, worth approximately $200,000) - Filed on July 25, 1986, in the Superior Court, San Diego, California, alleging that Ms. O'Dea made an oral promise to leave her entire estate to plaintiff in exchange for his caring for her during the last years of her life and seeking to have the alleged promise enforced by the imposition of a constructive trust for plaintiff's benefit on all the estate property. Discovery proceedings are under way. The executor has filed a motion for summary judgment against the plaintiff.

12. [[underlined]] Wade v. Smithsonian Institution [[/underlined]] ([[underline]] pro se [[/underline]]; alleged violation of constitutional rights of plaintiff, who is incarcerated in federal prison in Anthony, Texas, and who tendered a counterfeit money order for mail order merchandise, which Smithsonian officials allegedly mislabeled as "forged" upon forwarding the money order to prison officials) - Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 30, 1986. Plaintiff seeks money damages, declaratory judgment, and injunctive relief. A motion to dismiss for improper service was filed March 31, 1987. The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas is representing the Smithsonian and its defendant employees.