Suarez v. United States

The appellant, Frank Suarez, challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the United States on his claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act (the “FTCA”). Because Suarez failed to meet a jurisdictional *1065prerequisite to such a suit, the district court correctly declined to hear Suarez’s claim.

I. BACKGROUND

On December 1, 1989, Suarez voluntarily turned himself in to United States Marshals, when he learned that he was the subject of an investigation centering on a federal indictment for a Franklin Suarez, Jr. in Texas. A judge later established that he was not the Franklin Suarez,…