Edythe Shuman v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the Navy's promulgation of advisory safety guidelines for shipyards did not eliminate the Navy's discretion to prioritize production over safety
• finding that a decision not to warn contractors of asbestos hazards fell within the discretionary function exception
• noting trial court's finding that \adoption of conventional safety standards would not have involved significant costs or significant delay to the war effort\
• noting trial court’s finding that “adoption of conventional safety standards would not have involved significant costs or significant delay to the war effort”
• no duty to warn employees of government contractor of asbestos hazards or to take steps to eliminate them
• discussing 1958 amendments to LHWCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).