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VALADEZ-LOPEZ v. CHERTOFF

Nos. 09-16375, 09-17479, 09-17481.

656 F.3d 851 (2011)

Juan Carlos VALADEZ-LOPEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael CHERTOFF; Alberto R. Gonzales; Jerry J. Enomoto; John McGinness; Mack Wimbish; Yakov Grinberg, in his individual capacity; Donald Lown, in his individual and official capacities, Defendants, and United States of America, Defendant-Appellee. Juan Carlos Valadez-Lopez, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael Chertoff; Alberto R. Gonzales; Jerry J. Enomoto; United States of America, Defendants, and Donald Lown, in his official capacities, Defendant-Appellee. Juan Carlos Valadez-Lopez, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael Chertoff; Alberto R. Gonzales; Jerry J. Enomoto; United States of America, Defendants, and Yakov Grinberg, in his individual capacity, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carter C. White , Lorin Kline (certified law student), and Elizabeth Liang (certified law student); University of California Davis School of Law (King Hall) Civil Rights Clinic, Davis, California; Laurence O. Masson , Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiff/appellant.

J. Scott Smith , Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, Sacramento, CA, for defendants/appellees Donald Lown and Richard Van Zandt.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Benjamin B. Wagner , United States Attorney General, Thomas M. Bondy and Kelsi Brown Corkran, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the federal defendants/appellees.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether the plaintiff properly exhausted his administrative remedies under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA" or the "Act"), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 2671-80, see id. § 2675(a), where the federal agencies denied the plaintiff's administrative tort claims before he amended his complaint in an ongoing civil action to name the United...

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