Davis v. Bureau of Prisons

How courts have described this case

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• finding that letters to Director of the Bureau of Prisons and Residential Reentry Manager did not satisfy FTCA’s presentment requirement
• dismissing FTCA claim for 7 lack of subject matter jurisdiction where prisoner plaintiff could show that he prepared a written FTCA claim to the BOP but could not show that BOP actually received it
• rejecting the plaintiff’s assertion that he had exhausted his administrative remedies because he did not “provide a receipt or other proof of mailing” or otherwise “show[] that the [Bureau of Prisons] actually received the claim”
• “The plaintiff may have prepared a written FTCA claim, yet missing from his submissions is the required showing that the [appropriate agency] actually received the claim.”
• “The plaintiff’s failure to 6 submit an administrative claim under the FTCA to the [agency] prior to filing this lawsuit deprives this Court of subject[-]matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).