Harold B. Hughes and Nancy J. Hughes 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.

• plaintiff substituted the United States as defendant in place of a federal agency after the FTCA statute of limitations had run
• “Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a governmental agency cannot be sued in its own name; the action must be brought against the United States.”
• “Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a governmental agency cannot be sued in its own name; the action must be brought against the United States.”
• “Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a governmental agency cannot be sued in its own name; the action must be brought against the United States.”
• “[government agencies do not merge into a monolith” for the purpose of litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).