Shuler v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under the FTCA, a district court has subject-matter jurisdiction only if the plaintiff’s complaint sets forth facts sufficient to 7 demonstrate that the government employee whose conduct caused him harm violated a specifically prescribed policy
• emphasizing that the discretionary function exception immunizes even abuses of discretion
• applying the discretionary function rule to a lawsuit alleging negligence in failing to protect and conceal the identity of an informant
• applying the discretionary function rule to a lawsuit alleging negligence in failing to protect and conceal the identity of an informant
• “The United States is protected from unconsented suit under the ancient common law doctrine of sovereign immunity.” (quoting Gray v. Bell, 712 F.2d 490, 506 (D.C. Cir. 1983))
• “[T]he discretionary function immunizes even government abuses of discretion.”

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