United States Ninth Circuit

In a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit brought two prisoners housed at Taft Correctional Institution in California's San Joaquin Valley, who contracted coccidiodomycosis (cocci), colloquially known as 'Valley Fever,' while incarcerated at Taft, the District Court's dismissal of the action is reversed where the independent contractor exception to the FTCA did not bar plaintiffs' claims alleging a breach of the government's duties to prisoners housed at Taft.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/05/20

Judges

• TASHIMA

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel