Toegemann v. City of Providence.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that placement and maintenance of traffic control -8- devices fall within the public duty doctrine and “are purely governmental functions”
• premature notice of appeal is timely as long as a final judgment is entered thereafter
• premature notice of appeal is timely as long as a final judgment is entered thereafter
• “[T]he city’s placement of traffic-control devices * * * is precisely the type of discretionary governmental activity that is shielded from tort liability under the public-duty doctrine.”
• “[T]he city’s placement of traffic-control devices * * * is precisely the type of discretionary governmental activity that is shielded from tort liability under the public-duty doctrine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).