Leuthauser v. United States
Brief Details
- Authors
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Patrick Jaicomo
Senior Attorney
pjaicomo@staging.ij.org -
Anya Bidwell
Senior Attorney
abidwell@staging.ij.org -
Jaba Tsitsuashvili
Attorney
jtsitsuashvili@staging.ij.org
- Date Filed
- 05/25/2022
- Original Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- Current Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit
On June 26, 2023, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision that held that TSA agents were not "law enforcement agents" and thus could not be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The reversal comes after IJ argued as amicus in the case both in briefing and before the Ninth Circuit.