United States v. Orleans

How courts have described this case

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• holding that federal funded community action agencies are not federal agencies for purposes of FTCA liability
• holding that a community action agency is not a federal agency or instrumentality for purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act
• holding that claims against the United States are barred by the independent contractor exception unless the contractor’s “day-to-day operations are supervised by the Federal Government”
• holding that community action agency, a nonprofit corporation established pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act and subject to the federal standards and regulations, was not an instrumentality of the United States under Federal Tort Claims Act
• observing that “the United States can be sued only to the extent that it has waived its immunity”
• observing that \the United States can be sued only to the extent that it has waived its immunity\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).