Melanie Lewis v. BW Midtown Cedar Hill

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting section 2672 as barring any post-settlement claims made by the settling claimant
• “the FTCA directs us to look to the law of the state in which the government official committed the tort to determine the scope of sovereign immunity”
• “We conclude, as a matter of federal law, that an administrative settlement reached pursuant to section 2672 bars further claims by the settling party . . . ”
• “We conclude, as a matter of federal law, that an administrative settlement reached pursuant to section 2672 bars further claims by the settling party . . . .”
• “We conclude, as a matter of federal Jaw, that an administrative settlement reached pursuant to section 2672 bars further claims by the settling party, without regard to the effect it would have as a matter of state law.”
• “[T]he FTCA directs us to look to the law of the state in which the 13 government official committed the tort to determine the scope of sovereign 14 immunity. If the law of that state makes private parties liable. . . then the United 15 States is liable for the same.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).