Richard D. Jackson Gloria J. Jackson 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.

• noting that, for FTCA purposes, a state law is substantive where it “affect[s] the amount the government ultimately pays”
• “[The FTCA] specifically makes state law controlling to the extent needed to fix the government’s substantive liability.”
• “[T]he waiver of sovereign immunity is to be construed narrowly so that the government is never held liable for a plaintiff’s attorney fees, even if the local substantive law permits recovery of fees against a private individual in like circumstances.”
• substantive state law applies in FTCA actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).