United States Second Circuit

District court erred in finding that plaintiff's claim is not one for "injury or loss of property" under the Federal Torts Claims Act. This is true regardless of whether one uses the state-incorporation approach or the uniform federal approach in defining "injury or loss of property" for the purposes of 28 U.S.C. section 1346(b)(1).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2003
• Published 12/12/2003

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  VAN GRAAFEILAND, CALABRESI, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas P. Cella (Keith R. Rudzik, Todd W. Whitford, on the brief), Howard, Kohn, Sprague & FitzGerald, Hartford, Conn., for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robin D. Smith, Trial Attorney, Torts Branch, for Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Christopher J. Christie, United States Attorney, Jeffrey Axelrad, Director, Torts Branch, Civil Division, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.