Eddie Tyrone Cranford v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government decisions in marking a shipwreck are grounded in policy as they involve a balancing of different needs and interests
• finding the Coast Guard’s decision regarding marking a wrecked ship was protected by the discretionary function exception because it required balancing a plethora of policy considerations
• “the marking of a submerged wreck and the refusal to remove it are discretionary decisions grounded in social, political, and economic policy”
• “Our inquiry does not focus either on the subjective intent of the agent or on whether the agent actually weighed policy considerations.”
• plaintiffs “would have us rule that the discretionary function exception does not apply to the execution of a governmental decision, but this argument merely restates the operational conduct distinction rejected in Gaubert”
• “The [plaintiffs] would have us rule that the discretionary function exception does not apply to the execution of a governmental decision, but this argument merely restates the operational conduct distinction rejected in Gaubert.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).