Hall v. US, General Services Admin.

How courts have described this case

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• noting the First Circuit has not recognized state law tort duties as limitations on the United States’ discretion under the FTCA
• “It is also well established that the decision to assign safety responsibility to a contractor cannot form the basis for tort liability against the government.”
• “the common law duty alluded to by plaintiffs is not the type of mandatory duty that would deprive the GSA’s activities of the benefit of the ‘discretionary function’ exception”
• discussing in detail the independent contractor exemption under the FTCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).