Sandra Jean Smith v. United States (1991)

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green Smith v. United States (1993)

Rule Authority · SCOTUS · 2 citations in this opinion

As Judge Fletcher accurately observed in her dissenting opinion in the Court of Appeals: "Those who have no problem with venue should not be foreclosed from bringing suit simply because others cannot, particularly with respect to a statute such as the FTCA the primary purpose of which, as we have seen, was to expand the jurisdiction of the federal courts." 953 F. 2d 1116, 1122 (CA9 1991). *215 At most, the imperfections in the statute indicate that in 1946 the 79th Congress …

green Aaron Schwarder Donna Eubanks Kathleen Schwarder v. United States (1992)

Cited · 9th Cir. · signal: see · 2 citations in this opinion

See Smith v. United States, 953 F.2d 1116, 1118 (9th Cir.1991) (relying on the language of the statute, federal case law, and legislative history to determine the meaning of the ambiguous term "foreign country" under section 2680(k) of the FTCA). 61 In determining whether a wrongful death action is excluded by section 2672 from the waiver of sovereign immunity by the United States, we must resolve any ambiguity in the statute in favor of the United States.