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· 6/2/2003

Jose Aguado Cervantes v. United States

Citations

  • 330 F.3d 1186
  • 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4562
  • 2003 Daily Journal DAR 5874
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 10856
  • 2003 WL 21252142

How courts have described this case

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

  • applying California law to FTCA claims for false arrest and false imprisonment by customs agents
  • applying California law to FTCA claims for false arrest and false imprisonment by customs agents
  • applying California law to FTCA claims for false arrest and false imprisonment by customs agents
  • “Although rare, on occasion, we see arguments that simply fail the straight- face test.”
  • “the exception does not protect the government, whatever it does with a once-detained good, for the rest of that good’s existence. The plain text of the statute says the claim must relate to the detention, not to any activity that happened to involve a once-detained item”
  • dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wardlaw, Browning, Kozinski, Law

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