Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• invalidating settlement of minor’s FTCA claim because no court had approved the settlement as required by New Jersey law
• “Courts uniformly look to state law to determine the validity of settlements entered between the government and [an FTCA] claimant . . . .”
• “Rather than developing a federal common law ... we can instead rely on the well-established rules of the various States.”
• claimant’s parent's filed first action when she was a minor and the controlling question was if their acceptance of the earlier settlement was valid pursuant to state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).