Legal Opinion
Williams v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 2, 2001No. 00-1118PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS joined. Chief Judge BOYLE wrote an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the result.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
We are presented with the question of whether the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680, waives the United States’ sovereign immunity with respect to a claim that an Indian hospital operated by the United States on the Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina wrongfully refused emergency medical treatment of a non-Indian person, causing his death. Because the decedent’s…
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