Merchants' Bank & Trust Co. v. Pflug

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the FTCA makes the United States liable for negligence only “in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances . . . in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred”
• “We ... look to the law of the state in which the alleged tortious activity occurred to resolve questions of liability under the FTCA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).