Nealon v. District of Columbia

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• explaining that discretionary decisions about water pressure in fire hydrants are protected by both the public duty doctrine and sovereign immunity
• explaining that discretionary decisions about water pressure in fire hydrants are protected by both the public duty doctrine and sovereign immunity
• finding that the city’s decision to temporarily decrease water pressure in its fire hydrants was likewise a discretionary decision relating to city resource allocation and fire protection
• describing District’s immunity for acts having “a broad public effect and call[ing] for a delicate balancing of competing considerations” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “If the act is committed in the exercise of a ministerial function, the District is not immune.”
• the District’s decision to lower the water pressure in a neighborhood’s fire hydrants rendered one of those hydrants inadequate to stop the spread of a residential fire in that neighborhood

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