Phong Lam 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.

• “it is well-established that negligence is not 13 part of the discretionary function exception analysis.”
• “[T]he district court must not focus on or even consider the employee’s actual thinking about what to do or not do.”
• “[C]ourts should put the negligence issue aside on a [discretionary function exception]-based motion to dismiss and focus its inquiry on whether the employee’s acts were discretionary.”
• failure to remove a tree in a Lake Mendocino recreation area campground
• courts “must 17 not focus on or even consider the employee’s actual thinking 18 about what to do or not do, or the status of the employee, or the 19 ‘routine or frequent nature’ of the discretionary act.”
• “If the policy is mandatory, it cannot be discretionary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Sixth Circuit· 2021-11-02· cited 6×
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  Alaska Supreme Court· 2022-01-21

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Gaubert
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-26· cited 2,087×
• Berkovitz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,883×
• Dalehite v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 1,757×
• United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-19· cited 1,618×
• Indian Towing Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-11-21· cited 1,289×
• Lorrin Whisnant, Individually v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-03-11· cited 180×
• Nell D. Autery, as Administratrix of the Estate of Roy Franklin Autery Charlotte Schreiner v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-06-11· cited 160×
• Felix Valdez v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-08· cited 149×
• Terbush v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-02-21· cited 142×
• Sabow v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-08-28· cited 140×
• Kendra Summers, a Minor, and Frederick J. Summers, Guardian Ad Litem v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-06-26· cited 103×
• Merando v. United States
  Third Circuit· 2008-02-20· cited 83×
• Gatx/airlog Company Gatx Capital Corporation Airlog Management Corporation Frederick L. Hatton and Sanford P. Burnstein v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-04-19· cited 80×
• Bartley H. O'TOOle Lilly E. O'TOOle v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-07-10· cited 67×
• Gonzalez Ex Rel. A.F. v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-02-24· cited 67×
• Chadd Ex Rel. Estate of Boardman v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-07-27· cited 60×
• Childers v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-11-30· cited 59×
• Arizona Maintenance Co. v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-01-10· cited 48×
• Myers v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-07-15· cited 47×
• Camozzi v. Roland/Miller & Hope Consulting Group
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-01-20· cited 46×