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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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