United States Ninth Circuit

Psychological injury accompanied by physical injury, regardless of the order in which they occur, is within the scope of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, thus a Federal Tort Claims Act claim is preempted.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2003
• Decided 04/18/2003
• Published 04/18/2003

Judges

• Before BRUNETTI, T.G. NELSON, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellant., J. Adam Moore, Yakima, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.