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· 7/9/2013

Tritz v. United States Postal Service

Citations

  • 721 F.3d 1133
  • 2013 WL 3388487
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 13811
  • 119 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 358

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s complaint for “failure to comply 13 with the FTCA’s administrative exhaustion requirement”
  • “[N]othing in the language of the Tucker Act makes its grant of jurisdiction to the Court of Federal Claims exclusive for all contract claims over $10,000.”
  • affirming dismissal of breach of contract claims based on breach of settlement agreements on alternate ground that plaintiff’s pro se complaint failed to state a claim that would entitle her to relief
  • While the Tucker Act “create[s] a presumption of exclusive jurisdiction in the Court of Federal Claims, ... that presumption can be overcome by an independent statutory grant of jurisdiction to another court.”
  • “A district court may dismiss a pro se complaint for failure to allege compliance with the [Federal Tort Claims Act’s] administrative exhaustion requirement if it clearly appears that the deficiency cannot be overcome by amendment.”
  • “Court-approved settlement agreements . . . have res judicata effect.”

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Judges: Schroeder, Thomas, Silverman

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