Molchatsky v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that discretionary function exception barred FTCA claim because challenged “choices regarding allocation of agency time and resources” were “grounded in economic, social and policy considerations”
• “In the absence of allegations demonstrating relevant mandatory obligations, the Court presumes that the challenged acts and omissions are discretionary and not amenable to suit.”
• “The DFE is not about fairness, it ‘is about power’; the sovereign ‘reserve[s] to itself the right to act without liability for misjudgment and carelessness in the formulation of policy.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).