United States Fifth Circuit

Judgments on partial findings pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(c) in favor of defendant-U.S. on psychiatric patients' claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) is reversed in part where the district court erred in dismissing for lack of jurisdiction plaintiffs' claims based on defendant-doctor's coworkers' independent acts of negligence in failing to prevent the doctor's sexual assaults.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2006
• Published 08/25/2006

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before GARZA, PRADO and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott Alan Ozmun (argued), Whitehurst, Harkness, Ozmun & Archuleta, Jeffrey S. Edwards, Whitehurst, Harkness, Ozum & Brees, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Castillo (argued), Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.