Legal Opinion
Willard D. Douglas and Violet A. Douglas v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 1, 1981No. 80-1196PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
The issue on appeal is whether the district court was deprived of jurisdiction of appellant Douglas’s personal injury action by Douglas’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 2671-80.
The history of Douglas’s administrative claim is long and distressing. Douglas contends that on Memorial Day, 1971, he injured his ankle when a rotten plank in a U.S. Navy dock gave way beneath him. The dock was at a naval armory in Detroit where Douglas, a civilian, was attending a Memorial Day Service. 1
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2Cases cited13 opinions
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3Cited by77 opinions
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