Allen Anderson Heather Ayres Hillary Ayres, by Her Guardian Ad Litem Karen Ayres Karen Ayres v. United States

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• holding that the FTCA supported a negligence claim against the government for failing to manage a prescribed burn in a national forest
• holding that because private landowners under California law can be held liable for the negligent setting of or failing to control fires on their property, so too can the United States government
• refusing to limit the liability of the government for the negligence of the U.S. Forest Service because California courts have “not described any such public policy in the area of firesetting and fire control by private persons” that would limit liability
• refusing to limit the liability of the government for the negligence of the U.S. Forest Service because California courts have “not described any such public policy in the area of firesetting and fire control by private persons” that would limit liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).