Tazelaar v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Plaintiff Raymond Tazelaar (“Tazelaar”), a civilian employee of the United States Air Force, sued Jacob Washington and Bernard Grant in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, alleging that their negligence caused a vehicular collision in which Tazel-aar was injured on January 16, 1981. The defendants’ removal petition was granted pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2679(d),1 since both defendants were certified as federal employees acting within the scope of their employment at the time of the incident. This Court subsequently granted the United…