Susanin v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

The government has moved to dismiss Mary Susanin’s claim for loss of consortium for failure to satisfy the jurisdictional prerequisites of the Federal Tort Claims Act. We conclude that a jurisdictional defect prevents this court from entertaining the wife’s claim. That portion of the complaint will therefore be dismissed, but without prejudice to its renewal upon final disposition of the wife’s administrative claim.

The complaint alleges that John Susanin was injured on January 30-31, 1981 by the action of employees of the United States acting within the…