McGuire v. Turnbo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “a complaint will relate back under Rule 15(c) when the district court has enlarged Rule 4(m)’s notice period”
• noting that the Rule 4(m) period referenced in Rule 15(c)(1)(C) includes “any extension the court may grant” for service
• instructing that “to sue successfully under the FTCA, a plaintiff must name the United States as the sole defendant”
• allowing amended complaint substituting the United States for federal employees to relate back where the United States received timely notice
• service timely where plaintiff served defendant within court’s extended deadline, nearly two years after filing suit
• “To sue successfully under the FTCA, a plaintiff must name the United States as the sole defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gonzales v. Wyatt
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-10-23· cited 270×
• Efaw v. Williams
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-01-16· cited 214×
• Evans v. Ball
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-12· cited 137×
• United States v. Thomas B. McLaughlin and Christine McLaughlin
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-12-08· cited 59×
• Locklear v. Bergman & Beving AB
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-08-07· cited 38×
• Troy Moore, Sr. v. Saajida Walton
  Third Circuit· 2024-03-21· cited 32×
• Beachside Associates, LLC v. Fishman
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2010-07-30· cited 22×
• Moler v. Wells
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-11-10· cited 16×
• Zander v. United States
  D. Maryland· 2012-02-13· cited 10×
• Ferguson v. Loder
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 8×
• Penn Millers Insurance Ex Rel. S & C Construction Co. v. United States
  E.D. North Carolina· 2007-01-18· cited 8×
• Lee v. Henderson
  E.D. Texas· 1999-12-01· cited 5×
• Aguilar v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-11-13· cited 4×
• Trinity Baptist Church v. Guideone Elite Insurance
  W.D. Oklahoma· 2009-08-28· cited 4×
• Bessette v. Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-06-01· cited 2×
• Aguilar v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-12-29· cited 1×
• Bessette v. Dept. of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-06-01· cited 1×
• Diaz v. United States
  S.D. Mississippi· 2011-05-02· cited 1×
• No. 96-11125
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-03-31
• Carter v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
  W.D. Texas· 2008-09-23

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• St. Paul Reinsurance Company, Ltd. v. Larry Greenberg
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-02-10· cited 529×
• West v. Conrail
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-06· cited 261×
• Hansler v. Mainka
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1991-03-14· cited 88×
• Atorie Air, Inc. v. Federal Aviation Administration, of the United States Department of Transportation, Roger Knight, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-10-30· cited 73×
• Alan James Spina v. C.L. Aaron, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-07-17· cited 55×
• Austin Vernell, Acting for and on Behalf of the Community Estate and Helen Vernell, Individually v. United States Postal Service
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-06-12· cited 49×
• Maryam Jamilah Zaidi v. Harriet Joan Ehrlich
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-05-09· cited 48×
• Pfau v. Reed
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-27· cited 37×