Sellers v. United States

Sellers appeals the decision of the district court finding that, as a matter of law, the government owed no duty to Sellers’s ward for the conduct of Allen Firestine, who was treated for manic depression at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital (VAH) in Battle Creek, Michigan. Sellers’s ward, Terrance Sellers, was severely beaten by Fir-estine on February 17, 1985. Firestine had been an inpatient and was still receiving outpatient treatment at the time of the incident. Sellers filed suit against the VAH under the Federal Tort Claims Acts (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq., for negligent…