Nguyen
Nguyen v. United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 TRANG NGUYEN, Case No. 21-cv-00121-RMI
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: MOTION TO INCREASE
v. THE AMOUNT OF CLAIM
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Re: Dkt. No. 48 Defendant.
13 Now pending before the court is Plaintiff’s Motion to Increase Amount of Claim (dkt. 48). Defendant has responded in opposition (dkt. 55), Plaintiff has replied (dkt. 59), and the matter came on to be heard at oral argument on June 7, 2022 (dkt. 61). For the reasons discussed below, Plaintiff’s motion is denied. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff has sued Defendant, the United States of America, to recover damages for injuries she suffered in the course of an automobile accident involving Officer Russell Hurley of the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police. See generally Compl. (dkt. 1) at 3-6. On July 2, 2019, Plaintiff’s automobile was struck from behind by Officer Hurley’s patrol car; the force of the…