Messerschmidt v. City of Sioux City

How courts have described this case

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• holding decision to remove a road barricade did not involve policy-making decisions and city had “not met its burden to prove considerations based on social, economic, or political policy were involved in its decision”
• holding decision to remove a road barricade did not involve policy-making decisions and city had “not met its burden to prove considerations based on social, economic, or political policy were involved in its decision”
• discussing the discretionary function immunity for municipalities and noting that it applies where the city may weigh various competing needs including “limited financial resources”
• discussing the discretionary function immunity for municipalities and noting that it applies where the city may weigh 18 various competing needs including “limited financial resources”
• city employee’s decision to remove road barricade following parade governed not by regulation but by “choice based on judgment”
• “Matters such as when to lift a temporary road barricade do not require evaluation of policies but instead involved implementation of everyday decisions routinely made by the city.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).