Sosna v. Moore

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• holding that a prison official’s judgment concerning what steps to take regarding inmate safety involves the kind of discretion protected by the discretionary function exception
• ruling that the discretionary function exception applied to the decision not to relocate an inmate who had received death threats from his cellmate
• holding that the FTCA’s limited waiver of sovereign immunity does not apply \if the tort claims stem from a federal employee’s exercise of a ‘discretionary function’\
• finding that correctional officers have discretionary function in determining how to respond to inmate threats and in how to search an inmate’s cell
• applying standard to Bivens Eighth Amendment 28 1 claim
• J. Tashima, concurring in part, dissenting in part

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).