Japan Air Lines Co., Ltd. v. State

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• holding State liable for construction of airport taxiway narrower than width prescribed by federal design standards
• state's engineers could be liable for negligent action to further the State's policy decision to build a runway suitable for use by wide-body jets
• state's engineers could be liable for negligent action to further the State's policy decision to build a runway suitable for use by wide-body jets
• design decisions by state engineers are operational and not discretionary where they implement basic policy to build taxiway suitable for widebody jets
• design decisions by state engineers are operational and not discretionary where they implement basic policy to build taxiway suitable for widebody jets
• design decisions concerning taxiway at airport were operational because \broad policy factors\ were not concerned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).