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· 9/22/1992

441 4th Street Ltd. Partnership v. United States

Citations

  • 26 Cl. Ct. 1233
  • 38 Cont. Cas. Fed. 76,408
  • 1992 U.S. Claims LEXIS 435
  • 1992 WL 234118

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the discretionary-function exception is applicable to decisions whether to enforce boating regulations
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, and not the Eighth Amendment, 27 governs cruel and unusual punishment claims of pretrial detainees.
  • “A decision not to warn of a specific, known hazard for which the acting agency is responsible is not the kind of broader social, economic, or political policy decision that the discretionary function exception is intended to protect.”
  • “Parents, dependent or not, are therefore entitled to loss-of-society damages.”
  • failure to warn of maritime obstructions

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Judges: Wiese

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