Sea Air Shuttle Corp. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \violation of a federal statute by governmental actors does not create liability unless state law would impose liability on a `private individual under like circumstances'\
• holding that the FTCA requires a relationship between the governmental employee and the plaintiff “to which state law would attach a duty of care in purely private circumstances”
• explaining that appellant \could have pursued a writ of mandamus from the court of appeals\ when faced with \agency inaction\
• holding “violation of a federal statute by governmental actors does not create liability unless state law would impose liability on a ‘private individual under like circumstances’”
• \It is virtually axiomatic that the FTCA does not apply `where the claimed negligence arises out of the failure of the United States to carry out a [federal] statutory duty in the conduct of its own affairs'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).