C.P. Chemical Company, Inc. v. United States of America and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he plain meaning of section 1346(b) is that the United States cannot be held liable when there is no comparable cause of action against a private citizen”
• United States could not be held vicariously liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for agency officials' quasi-legislative function of promulgating regulations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).