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123275P.pdf   08/16/2013  Timmy Jones  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3275
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, with Gruender, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. The court has jurisdiction to 
   determine whether the district court properly dismissed this case for lack 
   of subject-matter jurisdiction; where plaintiff sued the VA for 
   negligently failing to pay him benefits, resolution of the issue would 
   require the district court to determine whether the VA acted negligently 
   in making its benefits determinations; since judicial review of such 
   decisions is foreclosed by 38 U.S.C. Sec. 511(a), the district court 
   lacked subject-matter jurisdiction and properly dismissed the case.