Tort Revival

A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday revived a would-be immigrant’s Federal Tort Claims Act suit, finding the government violated a court order by removing the man from the United States and cannot now rely on a jurisdiction-stripping clause in immigration law to duck his claims.

PASADENA, Calif. – A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday revived a would-be immigrant’s Federal Tort Claims Act suit, finding the government violated a court order by removing the man from the United States and cannot now rely on a jurisdiction-stripping clause in immigration law to duck his claims.

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