David Kiehn v. United States

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• holding that a decision by National Park Service based in part on the agency’s limited personnel and resources was a judgment based on social, economic, or political policy
• holding the Government immune from suit because the decision to post warning signs about the danger of scaling cliffs at Dinosaur National Monument is part of an overall park plan left to the discretion 17 of the National Park Service
• upholding application of discretionary-function exception even when government provided no evidence that National Park Service’s failure to post warnings in remote areas of Dinosaur National Monument was a policy-based decision
• no duty to warn people that scaling sandstone cliffs in Dinosaur National Monument may be dangerous
• “The decision not to post warning signs in remote areas of a national monument inherently requires a balancing of public policy objectives, such as resource allocation, visitor safety and scenic preservation.”
• ordinarily we “will not assume a nonpolicy decision unless the record shows something to the contrary”

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