Anna Chronis v. United States

Our circuit applies a flexible standard to the exhaustion requirements for plaintiffs making claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, excusing technical deficiencies so as not to preclude all but the savviest of plaintiffs from receiving a hearing on the merits. See Delgado v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd. , 880 F.3d 913, 924 (7th Cir. 2018), as amended on denial of reh'g and reh'g en banc (June 19, 2018). The majority's decision demands far more of Chronis than our precedent requires.

Chronis, a pro se plaintiff, knew little about the complicated legal world of suing the federal government. She was…