Lindsey Nevels v. T Squared Energy, LLC

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• holding that courts may not “read exemptions into the Act beyond those provided by Congress”
• holding that government potentially liable for Forest Service's negligent fire-fighting
• overruling in part Dalehite for its proposition that the liability of the United States is restricted to that of a municipal corporation
• rejecting argument that the federal government’s liability should be determined by the liability of state and local firefighters
• allowing an action against the United States because of the national forest service’s negligence in firefighting
• describing the “very purpose of the [FTCA]? as “to waive the Government’s traditional all-encompassing immunity from tort actions and to establish novel and unprecedented governmental liability” and refusing “to read exemptions into the Act beyond those provided by Congress”

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