United States Fifth Circuit

Under 28 USC 2675(b) of the Federal Tort Claims Act, a plaintiff's administrative claim for $20 million for a child born with permanent brain damage will preclude the plaintiff from amending the claim to beyond that amount, even if the injury is more severe than believed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/16/2002
• Published 01/16/2002

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence J. Madigan (argued), Law Office of Lawrence J. Madigan, Houston, TX, for Suzanne and Daniel Dickerson.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Ernest John Archuleta,William O. Whitehurst, Whitehurst, Harkness, Ozmun & Archuleta, Austin, TX, Van Galen Hilley, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., E. Roy Hawkens (argued), Robert S. Greenspan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.