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REYES-COLÓN v. U.S.

No. 19-1235.

974 F.3d 56 (2020)

Nelissa REYES-COLÓN; Alexis Colón-Guevara; L.A.C.R.; Ileana E. De Jesús-Colón; Pedro Sánchez-Reyes; P.J.S., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 4, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro R. Vázquez, III , with whom Pedro R. Vázquez, III PSC, Jorge R. Quintana Lajara , San Juan, PR, and Quintana & Suárez, P.S.C., were on brief, for appellants.

Michael D. Weaver , Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, United States Postal Service, Bloomfield Hills, MI, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, Fidel A. Sevillano-Del Río , Assistant United States Attorney, Stephan J. Boardman , Chief Counsel, United States Postal Service, and Alice L.A. Covington , Appellate Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, United States Postal Service, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Lipez, and Thompson, Circuit Judges.

Preface

A federal district judge dismissed this case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA") — lack of subject-matter jurisdiction basically means the court has no "authority to decide the case either way." See...

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