Court Opinion

ID: 9480287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:43:46.277767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:35.619170
License: Public Domain

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join the judgment of the court and its fine opinion except with respect to the following matter that, in my view, is unnecessary to our disposition of this case. I respectfully decline to express a view on the appropriateness of the congressional determination that prisoners' small claims be subject to the Federal Tort Claims Act. Supra p. 4. Cf. Tidewater Oil Co. v. United States, 409 U.S. 151, 174, 93 S.Ct. 408, 421, 34 L.Ed.2d 375 (1972) (opinion of White, J.) (declining to join “the advisory to Congress reflecting one view of the relative merits of the Expediting Act”).