Plyler v. United States

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from a judgment of the district court awarded to William E. Plyler and Debra K. Plyler resulting from the alleged medical malpractice of Allen Jones and David Keely, who were at the time physicians and employees of the United States Public Health Service. The government argues that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the Plylers’ claim because they had not exhausted their administrative remedies, that the district court erred in holding there was proximate cause between the injury to the Plylers’ daughter and negligence of the…