Willard Wooten v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]o the extent that Wooten’s complaint sought relief for work-related injuries, the district court was without subject matter jurisdiction to consider the complaint under the FTCA.”
• further noting that “[s]ection 4126 is also the exclusive remedy when a work related injury is subsequently aggravated by negligence and malpractice on the part of prison officials…or when the injury stems from a negligent job assignment.”
• “Section 4126 is also the exclusive remedy when a work-related injury is subsequently aggravated by negligence and malpractice on the part of prison officials or when the injury stems from a negligent job assignment.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).