William G. Ward v. United States of America. Kenneth v. Montag and Alice L. Montag, His Wife v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• planning level decision to order supersonic flight is protected, but operational negligence resulting in sonic boom is not
• reverses district court grant of summary judgment where “facts respecting possible operational negligence are solely in possession of [defendant]”
• where moving party controls evidence, motions to continue summary judgment “should, we think, ordinarily be granted almost as a matter of course”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).