Leon S. Dolata and Robert A. Dolata v. Railroad Retirement Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding the FTCA only waives the United States’ sovereign immunity “to the extent that a private person in like circumstances could be found liable in tort under local law’
• holding “the violation of a federal statute or regulation by government officials does not of itself create a cause of action under the FTCA” and noting that “[t]he FTCA’s local law requirement may not be circumvented merely by casting the alleged . . . wrong as negligence”
• “A federal court may issue an injunction if it has personal jurisdiction 7 over the parties and subject matter jurisdiction over the claim; it may not attempt to determine 8 the rights of persons not before the court.”
• “A federal court may issue an injunction if it has personal jurisdiction 7 over the parties and subject matter jurisdiction over the claim; it may not attempt to determine 8 the rights of persons not before the court.”
• “[A] federal court may [only] issue an injunction if it has personal 8 jurisdiction over the parties and subject matter jurisdiction over the claim; it may not attempt to 9 determine the rights of persons not before the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).