Legal Opinion
Georgacarakos v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 29, 2005No. 04-1363PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Peter N. Georgacarakos, a federal prisoner, sued the United States for the loss of 23 books and a manuscript allegedly caused by the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Post Office. In May 2002 personnel at the Bureau’s facility in Florence, Colorado, removed a box containing the books and manuscript from storage and mailed it to Plaintiffs family, apparently believing that they were acting at Plaintiffs request. The box came apart at the Florence Post Office, and all but seven of the books were lost.
Plaintiff claims that the Bureau caused his loss by…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Kosak v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Norman Birnbaum, B. Leonard Avery and Mary Rule MacMillen Plaintiffs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- George Groundhog v. W. W. KeelerCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
- Ruiz v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
- Simkins v. BruceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2005
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