Monroe E. Berkman v. United States of America, & Third Party v. Arrow General, Incorporated, Third Party

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• finding that the government had delegated relevant landowner duty as to the floors of the premises, but not the doors of the premises
• “[W]e agree with the district court's ruling that the application of the independent contractor exception of § 2671 shields the United States from tort liability which might otherwise arise from the performance of duties which were reasonably delegated to the contractor.”
• “The fact that an independent contractor may have been responsible for [the plaintiff’s] fall ... cannot be viewed as relieving the United States from liability where the plaintiff alleges that federal employees also may have caused or contributed to the alleged tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).