Court Opinion

ID: 9481595
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:25:06.776616+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:26.794794
License: Public Domain

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment:
I concur in all but Part II of the majority’s opinion. I subscribe to the holding of the D.C. Circuit in Beattie v. United States, 756 F.2d 91 (D.C.Cir.1984), that Antarctica is not a foreign country within the meaning of the FTCA. Nevertheless, I agree with the majority that it would be inconsistent with EEOC v. Arabian American Oil Co., 111 S.Ct. 1227 (1991), to hold that the FTCA applies to torts occurring in Antarctica. Accordingly, I concur in the result of the majority opinion.