11-1504-cv
Hassan Saleh v. Holder
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
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At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United
States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of New York, on
the 22nd day of May, two thousand twelve.
PRESENT:
JON O. NEWMAN,
CHESTER J. STRAUB,
GERARD E. LYNCH,
Circuit Judges.
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Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v. 11-1504-cv
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
General of the United States, et
al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
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FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: TAREK YOUSSEF HASSAN SALEH, pro se,
Brooklyn, NY.
FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: EDWARD SCARVALONE (David Rivera, on
the brief), Doar Rieck Kaley &
Mack, New York, NY, for Defendant-
Appellee Mahmoud Elrammal.
NATASHA OELTJEN, Assistant United
States Attorney (David S. Jones,
Assistant United States Attorney,
on the brief), for Preet Bharara,
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York (Batts, J., Gorenstein,
M.J.).
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND
DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED in
part and VACATED in part and the case is REMANDED to the district
court to modify the judgment so as to dismiss Appellant’s claims
under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) without prejudice.
Appellant Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh, proceeding pro se,
appeals the district court’s judgment dismissing his amended
complaint with prejudice. We assume the parties’ familiarity
with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case,
and the issues on appeal.
We review de novo a district court's dismissal of a
complaint under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and
12(b)(6), accepting as true the factual allegations in the
complaint and drawing all reasonable inferences in the
plaintiff's favor. See Macias v. Zenk, 495 F.3d 37, 40 (2d Cir.
2007); Triestman v. Fed. Bureau of Prisons, 470 F.3d 471, 474 (2d
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Cir. 2006).
The district court correctly determined that it lacked
subject matter jurisdiction over Saleh's FTCA claims because he
had not exhausted his administrative remedies prior to filing his
initial district court complaint. See 28 U.S.C. § 2675; McNeil
v. United States, 508 U.S. 106, 111-13 (1993). However, as the
Government acknowledges, in such a situation the proper course of
action is for the district court to dismiss the claims without
prejudice to allow the litigant to institute a separate new
action once exhaustion has been completed. See Neal v. Goord,
267 F.3d 116, 123 (2d Cir. 2001), abrogated on other grounds by
Porter v. Nussle, 534 U.S. 516, 524 (2002); Snider v. Melindez,
199 F.3d 108, 111-12 (2d Cir. 1999); see also Macias, 495 F.3d at
39-40 (affirming dismissal without prejudice of unexhausted FTCA
claims). Thus, the district court erred in denying Saleh’s FTCA
claims with prejudice.
Having conducted an independent review of the record, we
affirm the remainder of the district court’s judgment dismissing
Saleh’s amended complaint for substantially the same reasons
stated in the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation and in
the district court’s order. We have considered all of Saleh’s
remaining arguments on appeal and find them to be without merit.
Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is hereby
AFFIRMED in part and VACATED in part, and the case is REMANDED
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for the district court to enter judgment dismissing Saleh’s
claims under the FTCA without prejudice.
FOR THE COURT:
Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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