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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Axon denies, in part, the government and its entities motion to dismiss tort allegations after a recreation specialist employed by the Bureau of Prisons caused the decedent’s death in a vehicle collision. The United States raises a jurisdictional question that is intertwined with a merits question of the estate’s claim; the Federal Prisons, Department of Justice, and National Institute of Corrections are dismissed from this case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court granted the estate’s motion for deferral ruling until discovery is complete and to determine if the specialist was acting in her scope of work. The stay is lifted, and the remaining parties must meet and confer the filing of a Rule 26 report. Therefore, the court finds the government’s motion for summary judgment to be moot and has granted the estate’s motion for further discovery before ruling on the United States motion to dismiss.