P. Brian Brumfield v. Sherri Sanders Michelle Shadday Brenda Derr-Blakeney M. Jane Huff Carla Meyers United States of America

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• concluding that racially motivated false statements against the plaintiff occurred in the scope of employment because they were responsive to an investigation that the defendants were required to cooperate with
• holding that, under section 2680(h), “defamation suits against the United States are prohibited”
• noting that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has adopted the Restatement's definition of \scope of employment\
• noting that “unauthorized acts” may be within the scope of employment if they are clearly incidental to the employer’s business
• noting that “unauthorized acts” that are “clearly incidental to [an employer’s] business” are not necessarily outside the scope of employment (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• finding that the federal employee defendants were acting within the scope of their employment when the alleged defamatory statements were made during the course of an official investigation

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