Peter L. Johnson 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.

• act “substantially certain” to cause false imprisonment; citing Restatement (Second) of ToRts § 35 comment h (1965)
• “A complaint charging negligence is fatally flawed by an omission to set forth all of the essential elements of the claim.”
• “[S]urely a litigant cannot circumvent the [FTCA] by the simple expedient of drafting in terms of negligence a complaint that in reality is a claim as to which the United States remains immunized.”
• “Surely a litigant cannot circumvent the [FTCA] by the simple expedient of drafting in terms of negligence a complaint that in reality is a claim as to which the United States remains immunized.”
• ‘[S]urely a litigant cannot circumvent the [FTCA] by the simple expedient of drafting in terms of negligence a complaint that in reality is a claim as to which the United States remains immunized.’”
• same for doctors at a Veterans Administration hospital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).