Reading Room Document

With regard to enrollees in Title I‐B and Title I‐C projects who are working in Federal programs or agencies.

The document is a response from the Office of Legal Counsel to a letter inquiring about the tort liability of enrollees in Title I-B and Title I-C projects working in federal programs or agencies. The response concludes that the United States is bound to tort liability by the negligent acts of these enrollees. It also states that the Department of Justice may represent an enrollee in a tort action and discusses the Federal immunity doctrine. The questions presented for review include the tort liability of the United States, the representation of an enrollee by the Department of Justice, and the Federal immunity doctrine.

July 27, 1965