Ronald D. Routh v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding discretionary function applied where typical contract provisions requiring mandatory oversight by contracting officer were not present in specific contract
• “[D]iscretion may be removed if the government incorporates specific safety standards in a contract which imposes duties on the government’s agent.” (internal quotation omitted)
• “[T]he 11 contracting officer’s decision whether or not a given situation created a safety hazard in violation 12 of the safety provisions of the contract was not a public policy decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).