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No #JusticeForJamesKing, it looks like. 😥 The Government's side in #BrownbackvKing said that King's side based his defence on two propositions that were previously rejected by the Supreme Court:...
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2/ ...(1) that when the US prevails in an FTCA action, the district court must dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and (2) a jurisdictional dismissal does not trigger the judgment bar.
3/ Respondent argued that the judgment did not preclude the action because Section 2676 imported the common law definition of res judicata. Res judicata was never applied to claims brought together in a single action.
