Ratliff v. Adkins

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “since the state court had no power to adjudicate a claim against the United States for negligence at a Post Office, this court likewise has no power to adjudicate this claim against it
• applying derivative jurisdiction doctrine and dismissing FTCA claim against employee of USPS removed pursuant to § 1442(a)(1)
• “When a case is removed under § 1442(a)(1), the jurisdiction of the federal court is derivative of that of the state court.”
• “Such claims against the United States are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts under the Federal Tort Claims Act”
• dismissal does not prevent Plaintiff from bringing “a separate action against the United States in this court under the FTCA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).