Federal Tort Liability After Egbert v. Boule: The Case for Restoring the Officer Suit at Common Law
Vol. 138 No. 4
Throughout the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, remedies for federal government misconduct were often predicated on rights to sue conferred by such common law forms as trespass, assumpsit, and ejectment. But Erie, the law-equity merger, and other factors pushed those common law forms to the side.