Caravallo

PUHniItLeLd ISPt aAte. sT AAtLtoBrEneRyT RACHEL R. DAVIDSON Assistant United States Attorney 501 I Street, Suite 10-100 Sacramento, CA 95814 Telephone: (916) 554-2731 E-mail: Rachel.Davidson@usdoj.gov 5 Attorneys for Defendant UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DIANA CARAVALLO, Case No. 2:23−CV−00391−AC

Plaintiffs, STIPULATION TO SUBSTITUTE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA AS DEFENDANT FOR

v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE,

Defendant.

16 Plaintiff Diana Caravallo and Defendant United States Postal Service, through their respective 17 counsel, stipulate to substitute the United States as Defendant in place of Defendant United States Postal 18 Service. The United States is the only proper Defendant for claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act. 19 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346 (b)(1) and 2679(a); FDIC v. Craft, 157 F.3d 697, 706 (9th Cir. 1998) (“The FTCA is 20 the exclusive remedy for tortious…