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103015P.pdf 08/12/2011 Joan Najbar v. The United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3015
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Murphy and Gruender,
Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. In a suit alleging the Post Office
was liable for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress
when it returned, incorrectly stamped "DECEASED," a letter which
plaintiff had sent to her soldier son in Iraq, the postal-matter exception
contained in 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2680(b) barred the suit, and the district court
did not err in dismissing the action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.