Steve Anctil v. Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in FTCA cases courts must apply federal rules rather than state rules if they “answer ‘the same question.’” (quoting Shady Grove Orthopedic Assocs. v. Allstate Ins., 559 U.S. 393, 398 (2010))
• interpreting Shady Grove in a Federal Tort Claim, applying Ohio Medical Malpractice law
• “[T]he Federal Rules provide a clear answer: no affidavit is required to state a claim for medical negligence.”
• “In other words, do the Federal Rules answer ‘the same question’ as the state rule?”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).