tailieunhanh - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 4 P41

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P41 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | FEDERALTORTCLAIMSACT 389 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT A set of legal reference books containing decisions of federal courts in chronological order. The first volume of the Federal Supplement was published in 1933 and successive volumes have been numbered consecutively. Volume 900 was published in 1994. A citation to an opinion printed in the Federal Supplement gives first the volume and then the page number on which the case begins. For example 465 . 1286 means that the case can be found in volume 465 on page 1286. The Federal Supplement was created as a reporter of trial-level decisions by federal district courts. It contains the decisions of . district courts from 1932 to the present decisions of the former . court of claims between 1932 and 1960 and the decisions of the . customs court from 1949 to 1980. The . customs court was renamed the . court of International Trade in 1980 and its decisions will now be carried under its new designation. In 1969 it started carrying rulings of the Judicial Panel on multidistrict litigation. Decisions of the . courts of appeals and of the former . Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and certain other federal courts are printed in the federal reporter. FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT Enacted in 1946 the federal tort claims act FTCA 60 Stat. 842 removed the inherent immunity of the federal government from most tort actions brought against it and established the conditions for the commencement of such suits. The FTcA permits persons to sue the government of the united States in federal court for money damages for injury or loss of property or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment under circumstances where the united States if a private person would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred. 28 . 1346 b In passing the FTCA .