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U.S. sued for Janklow's act

| Sunday, July 16, 2006

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The family of a motorcyclist killed when former U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign in 2003 has filed another lawsuit, this time naming the U.S. government instead of the South Dakota Republican.

Attorney Ron Meshbesher filed the $25 million wrongful-death lawsuit Friday in federal court on behalf of the family of Randy Scott.

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Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn., died instantly in the collision near Trent, S.D. Janklow was convicted of second-degree manslaughter. He resigned from Congress and served 100 days in jail.

Meshbesher filed an earlier lawsuit against Janklow that was dismissed on the grounds that Janklow could not be sued because he was protected by the Federal Tort Claims Act, which protects federal employees from negligence claims when they are on duty.

The new lawsuit, which names only the U.S. government, said that Janklow was acting as a member of the U.S. House at the time of the accident.

The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on the new lawsuit.

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