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· 12/27/1976

Cameron Smith by His Next Friend, E. J. Smith v. United States

Citations

  • 546 F.2d 872
  • 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 5711

How courts have described this case

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

  • predating Berkowitz but recognizing presence of policy judgments as dispositive issue in deciding whether exercise of discretion is protected by discretionary-function exception
  • “[W]e are convinced that the Government’s decision, as a landowner, not to warn of the known dangers or to provide safeguards cannot rationally be deemed the exercise of a discretionary function.”
  • in case concerning failure to warn of dangerous spring in Yellowstone National Park, “the Government’s decision, as a landowner, not to warn of the known dangers or to provide safeguards cannot rationally be deemed the exercise of a discretionary function”

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Judges: Lewis, Holloway, Doyle

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