Bastian v. Christesen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• dismissing tort claim because plaintiff did not first present his claim to the appropriate agency and exhaust administrative remedies
• “Constitutional tort claims . . . must be brought against individual federal agents or employees in their individual capacities through a Bivens action.”
• “The plaintiff has the burden to plead compliance with the exhaustion requirement.”
• “Even if an action against the federal government is the only possible remedy a plaintiff may have for torts by federal employees, the action cannot be brought if the United States has not explicitly waived sovereign immunity for such claims”
• first citing FDIC v. Meyer, 510 U.S. 471, 478 (1994)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).