MUNDT v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1519.

611 F.2d 1257 (1980)

Dennis Harold MUNDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atmore Baggot, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellant.

James P. Loss, Asst. U.S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant-appellee.

Before KENNEDY and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, District Judge.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Dennis Mundt appeals from a summary judgment entered against him on his suit for false imprisonment under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) and § 2680(h). Mundt claimed that he had been illegally detained beyond the expiration of his sentence for postal offenses. Because we conclude that Mundt did not establish a prima facie case of false imprisonment under Arizona law, we affirm.

In 1973 Mundt was...

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