Supreme Court· 6/13/1988

Berkovitz v. United States

Citations

486 U.S. 531
108 S. Ct. 1954
100 L. Ed. 2d 531
1988 U.S. LEXIS 2584
56 U.S.L.W. 4549

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holding that “the discretionary function exception will not apply when a federal statute, regulation, or policy specifically prescribes a course of action for an employee to follow.”
holding that discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act did not bar claim that government agencies permitted licensing and distribution of unsafe polio vaccine
holding that the discretionary function exception did not apply where the complaint alleged that the FDA failed to follow a prescribed course of conduct when approving a polio vaccine
holding that the discretionary function exception did not apply where the complaint alleged that the FDA failed to follow a prescribed course of conduct when approving a polio vaccine
holding that “judgment or choice” is the first of two requirements for the exception to apply
holding that the government may be liable when regulations set forth a course of conduct that it fails to follow

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Judges: Marshall

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