United States Tenth Circuit

Plaintiffs' unlawful detention action under Colo. Rev. Stat. section 13-40-104(1)(d) must be treated as a state-law tort claim, in which case, the Federal Tort Claims Act's administrative exhaustion requirement would apply.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2003
• Published 08/27/2003

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, PORFILIO, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Randolph Torbet, Colorado Springs, CO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, Kathleen L. Torres, Assistant United States Attorney, Elizabeth A. Weishaupl, Assistant United States Attorney, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.