Elmer Stratmeyer and Cornelia Stratmeyer v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “FTCA jurisdiction lies in federal courts, but the federal defendant’s actions are governed by the substantive law of the state where the act or omission occurred.”
• “FTCA jurisdiction lies in federal courts, but the federal defendant’s actions are governed by the substantive law of the state where the act or omission occurred.”
• no duty owed to ranchers from USDA veterinarian because “the plaintiff must show that the duty of care running from the government defendant to the plaintiff is not an obligation to the public at large, but rather an obligation to the plaintiff as a particular individual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).