Marsh v. Billington Farms, LLC, 04-3123 (r.I.super. 2006)

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• holding that the Navy's maintenance decisions regarding facilities used by civilian law enforcement fell within the exception
• explaining that allowing the threat of tort liability to shape military policy is “exactly what the- discretionary function exception seeks to avoid”
• finding that the discretionary function exception applied when the plaintiff-employee alleged that the Navy negligently maintained its training facilities
• explaining that “the requirement that shielded conduct be taken pursuant to specific policies expressed in federal law explains some of those courts’ reluctance to apply the discretionary function exception”
• explaining that the conduct in these instances “is unprotected by the discretionary function exception”
• discretionary function exception applicable to governmental decision within scope of regulatory policy “even when made negligently”

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