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· 2/26/1998

Elizabeth Millares Guiraldes De Tineo and Boris Baptista Millares v. United States

Citations

  • 137 F.3d 715
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 3862
  • 1998 WL 88875

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding plaintiffs’ “claims did not meet the time limitation imposed by the FTCA” when they were filed “more than two years after the claims’ accrual”
  • “the terms of [the United States’] consent to be sued in any court define that court’s jurisdiction to entertain the suit”
  • conditions of the FTCA’s waiver of sovereign immunity “are to be strictly applied against the claimant”
  • “In sum, the United States has not consented to be sued on a tort claim unless the claim was first presented to the appropriate federal agency in writing, was so presented within two years after the claim accrued, and specified the amount of the claim in writing.”
  • “In sum, the United States has not consented to be sued on a tort claim unless the claim was first presented to the appropriate federal agency in writing, was so presented within two years after the claim accrued, and specified the amount of the claim in writing.”
  • “In sum, the United States has not consented to be sued on a tort claim unless the claim was first presented to the appropriate federal agency in writing, was so presented within two years after the claim accrued, and specified the amount of the claim in writing.”

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Judges: Kearse, Walker, Weinstein

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