Legal Opinion
Thomas E. Engle v. Officer Craig Mecke, General Services Administration United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 13, 1994No. 93-2162PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESLEY E. BROWN, District Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Thomas Engle appeals the trial court’s award of $28,300.00 on his claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680 (FTCA), rather than the $351,646.00 awarded by a jury on his parallel constitutional claims. Because a FTCA claim against the federal government must be tried to the court, the Seventh Amendment did not require adoption of the jury’s award, and we affirm. 1
Mr. Engle, a former federal employee, engaged in a verbal altercation with a federal security guard after the guard refused to allow Mr. Engle…
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- United States v. SherwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
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- Lytle v. Household Manufacturing, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1990
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