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· 4/22/2008

Sydnes v. United States

Citations

  • 523 F.3d 1179
  • 27 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 870
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 8715
  • 2008 WL 1795029

How courts have described this case

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

  • cautioning that we must \bear[ ] in mind that the party asserting jurisdiction bears the burden of proving that sovereign immunity has been waived\
  • holding intentional infliction claim barred under discretionary function exception when the conduct giving rise to the claim was discretionary
  • noting that “the party asserting jurisdiction bears the burden of proving that sovereign immunity has been waived”
  • recognizing that the discretionary function exception “reasserts the government’s immunity”
  • noting that “the burden under our case law to present evidence of a discretion-constraining regulation or policy resides with the plaintiff.”
  • cautioning that we must “bear[ ] in mind that the party asserting jurisdiction bears the burden of proving that sovereign immunity has been waived”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Briscoe, Gorsuch, Parker

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