McKrell v. Metcalfe

How courts have described this case

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• stating that for statutes and regulations to establish a fiduciary duty there generally must be a trustee, a beneficiary, and a trust corpus (citing Mitchell, 463 U.S. at 225)
• finding retaliation claims to sound in tort and the Court lack subject-matter jurisdiction
• noting that fraud is a tort
• “In May 2004, the United States filed suit against plaintiffs in federal district 8 court to collect the unpaid taxes for the 1988, 1989, and 1990 tax years.”
• “However, because the First Amendment, standing alone, does not obligate the United States to pay money damages, it cannot serve as the basis for jurisdiction in the Court of Federal Claims.”
• ‘[P]laintiffs contend that the United States has engaged in tortious conduct, including harassment and persecution, malfeasance, fraud, abuse, and deception ... . The Court of Federal Claims does not possess jurisdiction to entertain claims sounding in tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).