Legal Opinion
United States v. Orleans
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 1976No. 75-328PublishedCited by 943 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
This ease presents the question whether a community action agency funded under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 is a federal instrumentality or agency for purposes of Federal Tort Claims Act liability.
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Title II of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 516, as amended, 81 Stat. 690, 42 U. S. C. § 2781 et seq., was passed to “stimulate a better focusing of all available local, State, private, and Federal resources upon the goal of enabling low-income families, and low-income individuals ... to become fully self-sufficient.” 42 U. S. C. §2781 (a). To this end the Act “provides for…
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