Hatahley v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agent acting outside his delegated authority is not protected by the discretionary function exception
• holding that the discretionary function does not apply where the decision-maker lacks authority
• holding that the FTCA allows the United States to be sued for trespass
• applying Utah law to a claim by Navajo Indians for Government destruction of their horses
• recognizing dictionary definitions have no application where terms are statutorily defined
• federal agents' confiscations of plaintiffs' horses without notice as required by law were \wrongful trespasses\ outside the scope of the discretionary function exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).