Court Opinion

ID: 4159938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-04-12 20:00:54.481638+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:46:45.667879
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM:
 

  After careful review of the briefs and the record, and having the benefit of oral argument, we find no reversible error.
 

  Frazier argues that her complaint set forth a plausible claim for negligence, wrongful death, deliberate indifference, and negligent supervision; and the district court erred by granting the United States’ motion to dismiss for failure to allege a legal duty. According to Frazier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) owed a legal duty to her fiancé, Melvin Vernell, III (Vernell), because a “special relationship” existed between the FBI and its confidential informant, Mani Chulpayev (Chulpayev). Frazier asserts that the FBI, through Special Agent Jackson, had a professional relationship with Chulpayev for several years prior to the murder of Ver-nell.
 

  After reviewing the district court’s grant of the motion to dismiss de novo, we conclude that Frazier’s allegations are insufficient to support a finding that the FBI had the requisite degree of control over Chul-payev to be held liable under Georgia law. Moreover, Frazier has not identified, nor havp we found, a liability-inducing cause of action for deliberate indifference under Georgia law in this context. The decision of the district court is
 

  AFFIRMED.