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Ninth Circuit· 1/11/2002

Alfrey v. United States

Citations

  • 276 F.3d 557
  • 2002 WL 27603

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • ruling that the discretionary function exception applied to the decision not to relocate an inmate who had received death threats from his cellmate
  • holding that a prison official’s judgment concerning what steps to take regarding inmate safety involves the kind of discretion protected by the discretionary function exception
  • holding that the FTCA’s limited waiver of sovereign immunity does not apply \if the tort claims stem from a federal employee’s exercise of a ‘discretionary function’\
  • finding that correctional officers have discretionary function in determining how to respond to inmate threats and in how to search an inmate’s cell
  • applying standard to Bivens Eighth Amendment 28 1 claim
  • J. Tashima, concurring in part, dissenting in part

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Graber, Tashima, Thompson

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