US 8th finds 14 Year Old Not a Federal Employee

In a short opinion, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit denied finding a 14 year old to be a federal employee though she was acting as a member of the Minnesota Army National Guard's "Delayed Training Program" at the time of sustaining severe injuries from an automobile accident.In Lynn Murray vs. USA; Dept of Army (03-2463, 08/17/04), Seventeen-year-old Jessica Ann Baker and fourteen-year-old Lynn Murray were involved in a tragic single-car automobile accident. Baker, the driver, was en route to Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School where she and Murray were students. On the way, Bak...