Greene v. Overholser

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the district court lacked jurisdiction over FTCA complaint where discretionary function exception applied
• determining that injuries alleged by public-housing subcontractors arose from federal housing officials’ suspension of the subcontractors from government contracting and not from the officials’ investigation into the subcontractors, as the subcontractors alleged
• finding that agency’s decision to “suspend plaintiffs” fell “well within” discretionary function exception
• noting that the FTCA “grants federal district courts jurisdiction over claims arising from certain torts committed by federal employees in the scope of their employment, and waives the government’s sovereign immunity from such claims”
• looking to complaint for allegations of harm and noting that “[t]he complaint does not allege any damages arising from the investigation itself, but only harm caused by the suspension to which it assertedly led.”
• “The sifting of evidence, the weighing of its significance, and the myriad other decisions made during investigations plainly involve elements of judgment and choice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).