How have courts interpreted the discretionary function exception?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Barbour v. United States, Case No. 1:18-cv-0246-NONE-BAM (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2020):
spread. "[A] prison's internal security is peculiarly a matter normally left to the discretion of prison administrators." Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 349 n. 14, 101 S.Ct. 2392, 2400 n. 14, 69 L.Ed.2d 59, 70 n. 14 (1981). The discretionary decision to lock the gates, to contain potential violence, which ultimately erupted is the type of action protected by discretionary function exception.
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