Texas Windstorm Insurance Association v. Kevin Kelly and Tiffany Kelly

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• concluding that a court should move beyond literal construction of a statute to effectuate “the objects and policy of the law”
• holding that § 1391(e) only applies to suits that are “in essence against the United States”
• holding that § 1391(e) does not apply to claims against government employees who are sued in an individual capacity
• holding that absent minimum contacts other than those arising from federal employment, a court may not exercise personal jurisdiction over a federal official in his individual capacity
• deciding, in face of legislative silence, that the venue provision of the Mandamus and Venue Act of 1962, 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e), necessarily is limited to mandamus-type actions
• holding, based in part on this statutory language, that § 1391(e) is not applicable to actions for money damages brought against federal officials in their individual capacities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).