Melvin Kanar v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• analogizing claim presentment under the FTCA to the formalities prescribed for tax refund claims where, once a taxpayer “activated the refund machinery,” he is “not defeated by foibles in the refund application”
• discussing what is required under the Federal Tort Claims Act to present a claim
• attorney’s failure to comply with the agency’s request that he provide proof of his capacity to represent the claimant hindered the settlement process and barred the claimant’s FTCA suit
• “No one may file suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act without first making an administrative claim.”
• “[W]e treat ‘claim’ as a statutory term that needs a definition, and we see no reason why that definition may not come from a regulation issued under statutory authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).