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9 Aug 2016, 11:04 am by Robert Loeb
  To the extent that the complaint speaks to acts the Secretary Clinton took while in office, those should be dismissed under the Westfall Act, 28 USC 2769. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 2:37 pm by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Clarke had been a police officer instead of a casino limo driver, the analogy would have been perfect for tribal interests. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 7:54 am
 Before one may pursue a Westfall Act claim, he must first try administrative remedies. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 5:54 am by Anna Christensen
  Section 2679 of the Westfall Act, in particular, makes clear that the FTCA does not preclude Bivens actions. [read post]
5 May 2015, 11:50 am by Steve Vladeck
I have, in various contexts (including prior Lawfare posts), made a similar argument: That Congress ought to enact an express cause of action for constitutional violations by federal officers, and, borrowing from the Westfall Act for non-constitutional torts, it should substitute the federal government as the proper defendant in any case in which the violation occurred in the course of the relevant federal officer’s employment. [read post]
17 May 2017, 1:45 pm by Guest Blogger
§ 1983 (which provides a cause of action for violations of federal law by state officers). [read post]
17 May 2017, 7:48 am by Steve Vladeck
§ 1983 (which provides a cause of action for violations of federal law by state officers). [read post]
11 Apr 2021, 5:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
After an initial, failed run led by a tough-on-crime prosecutor, Texas' Forensic Science Commission has oddly been led by medical examiners, even though the agency doesn't regulate that profession and their offices are separate from forensic analysis divisions in most counties. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 9:44 pm by Orin Kerr
Further, federal officers are protected from state tort causes of action for conduct in the course of their official duties by the Westfall Act. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 5:01 am by Kristina Lorch, John Sullivan Baker
He also invokes the Westfall Act, which grants common-law tort immunity to federal officials carrying out their official duties. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 12:56 pm by Elena Kagan, Alan Z. Rozenshtein
The question of the scope of official duties was also at the center of Brooks’ claim that he should be immune from liability under the Westfall Act, which requires the government to act as the defendant when federal employees are sued for tort liability for official actions. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 4:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“This research project is to either prove or disprove that it can be replicated with the same results,” said Judge Mollee Westfall, whose Tarrant County court will pilot the project in Texas. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 9:22 pm by Ruth Carter
The Road Not Taken by Greg Westfall from Flickr (Creative Commons License) Lately, I’ve felt like a typical lawyer: I get up; I go to the office; I do client work; I go home; I wake up the next day and do it all again. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 6:51 am by Howard M. Wasserman
The Westfall Act, which offers remedies against the United States for agents’ tortious acts, preserved Bivens for constitutional claims. [read post]