Gipson v. Shelley

NEESE, District Judge.

These plaintiffs brought action in tort against an employee of the United States in a state court for alleged negligence in a motor vehicle collision in which the governmental employee’s vehicle was involved. The United States attorney, acting for the Attorney General, certified that the defendant employee was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the incident out of which the suits arose, and the actions were removed to this court. Thus, these proceedings are now deemed tort actions brought against the United States, 28 U.S.C. § 2679(d), and…