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Parties Involved:
Jean Elizabeth Kaufman
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1122

JEAN ELIZABETH KAUFMAN,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern 

District of West Virginia, at Bluefield. David A. Faber, Senior 

District Judge. (1:12-cv-00237)

Submitted: May 21, 2015 Decided: May 26, 2015

Before MOTZ, KING, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Jean Elizabeth Kaufman, Appellant Pro Se. John Fulton Gianola, 

Stephen Michael Horn, Assistant United States Attorneys, 

Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Jean Elizabeth Kaufman appeals the district court’s order 

dismissing, after a bench trial, her civil action brought 

pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1346(b), 

2671–2680 (West 2006 & Supp. 2014). The district court 

dismissed Kaufman’s complaint because it found that the United 

States had not waived its sovereign immunity to suit for the 

claims raised by Kaufman and, thus, that it lacked subject 

matter jurisdiction over Kaufman’s claims. We have reviewed the 

record and discern no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm 

for the reasons stated by the district court. Kaufman v. United 

States, No. 1:12-cv-00237 (S.D.W. Va. Jan. 7, 2015). We 

dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal 

contentions are adequately presented in the materials before 

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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