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· 1/20/1995

John R. Cope v. Roland G. Scott United States of America

Citations

  • 45 F.3d 445
  • 310 U.S. App. D.C. 144
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 1062
  • 1995 WL 19338

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the discretionary function defense did not vitiate an alleged failure to warn about hazardous road conditions
  • concluding that the Park Service had “chosen to manage the road in a manner more amenable to commuting through nature than communing with it”
  • concluding that the discretionary function defense did not vitiate an alleged failure to warn about hazardous road conditions
  • holding that exception did not apply to claim that government failed to post adequate warning signs of dangerous road conditions
  • concluding that the Park Service had \chosen to manage the road in a manner more amenable to commuting through nature than communing with it\
  • holding that failure to post adequate street warnings was not a decision “fraught with public policy considerations”

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Judges: Wald, Ginsburg, Tatel

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