Annamma A. Ezekiel and Al Ezekiel v. Jaime T. Michel and United States of America

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• holding that a federal employee could not sue the government as a substitute defendant under the Westfall Act
• finding that a resident operating at a VA hospital under a “high[] degree of supervision and control” by the medical staff was a federal employee for FTCA purposes
• applying this principle to a subject matter jurisdiction challenge based on diversity
• West- fall Act substitution makes FECA exclusive remedy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).