Panaiot Ignatiev v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that dismissal based on discretionary function immunity was inappropriate before jurisdictional discovery into internal policies
• holding 2 that D.C. Circuit “require[s] that plaintiffs be given an opportunity 3 for discovery of facts . . . [regarding the] existence [or not] of 4 internal governmental policies guiding that action.”
• reversing the district court’s denial of limited jurisdictional discovery regarding whether the Secret Service maintained internal guidelines that created mandatory duties
• reversing dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction because the district court erred by not allowing jurisdictional discovery concerning internal Secret Service guidelines
• explaining the difficulties that an FTCA plaintiff faced in drafting a complaint, and concluding that discovery was the only tool he had to advance his claim
• reversing the district court’s decision to prohibit discovery regarding whether mandatory guidelines existed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).