United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's claim for tortious false imprisonment is affirmed where the United States is entitled to sovereign immunity since the claim falls under the "due care" exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/17/2005
• Decided 05/31/2005
• Published 05/31/2005

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and FREDERICK P. STAMP, JR., United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Todd Michael Stenerson, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Neil Ray White, Assistant United States Attorney, Office Of The United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Debra A. Drake, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Thomas M. DiBiagio, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.