Legal Opinion
Truman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1994No. 93-01500PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to explore the often murky boundary between the government’s sovereign immunity from suit and the availability of recovery under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 2671-80. In 1991, Donna Truman filed this suit against the United States, raising various tort claims under the FTCA. In her complaint, Truman described a pattern of sexual harassment visited upon her by James Whittaker, an employee of the Air Force who worked with Truman at the Sheppard Air Force Base Commissary. The district court dismissed Truman’s suit,…
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