9th Cir.;
15-15542

The court of appeals reversed a district court judgment. The court held that the prior dismissal of a federal case, due to the plaintiff’s failure to exhaust remedies under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) as to a defendant he did not reasonably know was a government employee, did not bar the plaintiff from filing a claim under the FTCA and then amending his state law claim to add the employee as a defendant.

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