L. Patrick Gray, III v. Griffin Bell

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• holding that a plaintiff \must clear the `discretionary function' hurdle and satisfy the `investigative or law enforcement officer' limitation\ in order to sustain his claim
• recognizing that “[t]he federal government’s decisions concerning enforcement of its criminal statutes comprise a part of its pursuit of national policy”
• finding that a plaintiff must allege that the defendant “breached a duty sufficiently separable from the decision-making function to be non-discretionary and outside the exception”
• stating that “courts should not subject the sovereign to liability where doing so would inhibit vigorous decision making by government policymakers”
• explaining that sovereign immunity serves to prevent courts “from reviewing or judging the propriety of the policymaking acts of coordinate branches” and from subjecting the sovereign to liability “where doing so would inhibit vigorous decisionmaking by government policymakers”
• holding the 1 the enumerated causes of action, but also to any claim “arising out” of libel or slander. 28 2 U.S.C. § 2680(h); see also Johnson v. United States, 547 F.2d 688, 691 (D.C. Cir. 1976

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