Gross v. Development Alternatives, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the FTCA “retains sovereign immunity for . . . ‘[a]ny claim arising in a foreign country’” (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2680(k))
• “Plaintiffs first suggest that, because USAID's negligent direction and oversight occurred in the United States, the foreign-country exception should not apply….But that line of reasoning is precisely what Sosa rejected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alan Gross v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 2014-11-14· cited 36×
• Klayman v. Obama
  District of Columbia· 2015-08-21· cited 26×
• Thompson v. Peace Corps
  District of Columbia· 2016-02-08· cited 3×
• Nations v. Hagel
  District of Columbia· 2015-04-15
• Tabaee v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  District of Columbia· 2026-04-21

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2006-02-22· cited 6,493×
• Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 4,884×
• Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 2,387×
• Bolling v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 2,385×
• Vance v. Bradley
  Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 1,449×
• Victor Herbert v. National Academy of Sciences
  D.C. Circuit· 1992-09-08· cited 1,322×
• Jerome Stevens Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food & Drug Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-04-08· cited 1,308×
• Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-29· cited 1,133×
• Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police v. Ashcroft
  District of Columbia· 2001-08-14· cited 854×
• Dolan v. United States Postal Service
  Supreme Court· 2006-02-22· cited 655×
• Molzof v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-14· cited 317×
• US Ecology, Inc. v. United States Department of the Interior
  D.C. Circuit· 2000-11-14· cited 288×
• Armour v. City of Indianapolis
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-04· cited 252×
• United States v. Spelar
  Supreme Court· 1949-11-07· cited 145×
• Weeks v. Bareco Oil Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1941-12-22· cited 144×
• Mohammad Sami v. United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-12-28· cited 131×
• Venetian Casino Resort, L.L.C. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-05-27· cited 115×
• Harbury Ex Rel. Estate of Bamaca-Velasquez v. Hayden
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-04-15· cited 101×
• Ola Belle Meredith v. United States of America
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-04-29· cited 29×