DeFusco v. Todesca Forte, Inc.

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• holding that opening of an exit ramp that was still under construction was a discretionary government function
• recognizing that with certain exceptions, “[tjhe public duty doctrine shields the state and its political subdivisions from tort liability arising out of discretionary governmental actions that by their nature are not ordinarily performed by private persons”
• recognizing that with certain exceptions, \[t]he public duty doctrine shields the state and its political subdivisions from tort liability arising out of discretionary governmental actions that by their nature are not ordinarily performed by private persons\
• finding that the state’s duty to properly maintain public roadways was a duty “owed only to the general highway-traveling public”
• no egregious conduct because no evidence that state had constructive or actual knowledge of prior accidents or that state acted egregiously in opening ramp before construction was complete

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).