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§ 881

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§ 881
Parent Document
United States v. Southland Management Corp., 326 F.3d 669 (2002)
Effective Date
2002-05-22
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/27565/united-states-v-southland-managem... ↗

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            See Office of Pers. Mgmt. v. Richmond, 496 U.S. 414, 426, 110
S.Ct. 2472 (1990) (denying recovery of disability benefit funds by retiree who
received erroneous information from federal agency that led him to lose six
months of benefits) (“judicial use of the equitable doctrine of estoppel
cannot grant respondent a money remedy that Congress has not authorized”);
Fed. Crop. Ins. Corp. v. Merrill, 332 U.S. 380, 382, 386 (1947) (denying
recovery by farmers of funds from federal crop insurance program where farmers
bought insurance after Government falsely assured them that their entire crop
was insurable); Linkous v. United States, 142 F.3d 271, 277 (5th Cir. 1998)
(rejecting plaintiff’s argument, in Federal Tort Claims Act action, that
United States should be equitably estopped from denying doctor’s status as
United States employee where doctor was in fact an independent contractor;
dismissing FTCA action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on ground that
FTCA’s waiver of sovereign immunity extends only to suits for acts committed
by Government employees within scope of their employment).