Dr. Bhartur N. Premachandra v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that if compensation is available under the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal employee may not sue under the FTCA
• “Decisions regarding employment and termination . . . are precisely the types of administrative action the discretionary function exception seeks to shield.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Decisions regarding employment and termination . . . are precisely the types of administrative action the discretionary function exception seeks to shield.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Had Congress intended for such decisions to be reviewable in district courts in the context of actions under the Federal Tort Claims Act, it would not have so precisely defined the civil service remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).