510 U.S. 471 (1994) Cited 7,178 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding a Bivens claim does not lie against federal agencies because, if damages claims were permitted against federal agencies, "there would be no reason for aggrieved parties to bring damages actions against individual officers" and thus "the deterrent effects of the Bivens remedy would be lost"
Holding that the purpose of the jurisdictional requirement for suit that claim be first presented to the appropriate administrative agency is to permit administrative consideration of and settlement of claims and to avoid unnecessary litigation
Holding that "sue-and-be-sued authority [of the FDIC] does not permit suit outside [the Federal Tort Claims Act] for torts excepted from the coverage of that Act."
Holding "[d]ecisions regarding how much safety equipment should be provided to a particular embassy, how much training should be given to guards and embassy employees, and the amount of security-related guidance that should be provided necessarily entails balancing competing demands for funds and resources" are exactly the type of discretionary functions Congress had in mind
28 U.S.C. § 2680 Cited 7,779 times 12 Legal Analyses
Concluding that claims for injurious falsehoods, disparagement of property, slander of goods, or trade libel are claims arising out of libel or slander under the FTCA