· 10/28/1987
Leland J. Seyler and Aileene Seyler, Husband and Wife v. United States
Citations
- 832 F.2d 120
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 16102
How courts have described this case
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- noting that nothing in the record demonstrated that the failure to post speed limits on an Indian reservation road actually resulted from a policy decision
- finding that the discretionary function exception did not apply when the government failed to erect speed limit signs on “a two-lane, paved public highway”
- noting that nothing in the record demonstrated that the failure to post speed limits on an Indian reservation road actually resulted from a policy decision
- stating \we doubt that any decision not to provide adequate signs would be of the nature and quality that Congress intended to shield from tort liability\
- stating “we doubt that any decision not to provide adequate signs would be of the nature and quality that Congress intended to shield from tort liability”
- failure to place speed limit sign on reservation road not a policy judgment and thus not covered by discretionary function exception
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Judges: Canby, Reinhardt, Beezer
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