Elias Attallah, Violeta Lajam De Attallah, and the Conjugal Partnership They Comprise v. United States

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• concluding that discretionary function exception applies “where there is room for choice” in federal employee .decisionmak-ing
• explaining that the judicial inquiry must focus “on the permissible range of action available to the government employee allegedly at fault”
• finding that the filing of a timely administrative claim is a jurisdictional requirement that cannot be waived
• observing that “how, and to what extent [an agency] supervises its employees certainly involves a degree of discretion and policy considerations of the kind that Congress sought to protect through the discretionary function exception”
• observing that “how, and to what extent [an agency] supervises its employees certainly involves a degree of discretion and policy considerations of the kind that Congress sought to protect through the discretionary function exception”
• applying the discovery rule to a case in which the plaintiffs alleged that customs officials had murdered their courier and stolen the money he was carrying

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