The U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a slip-and-fall lawsuit towards the federal government underneath the discretionary-function exception, holding it utilized a girl’s claims after she took a tumbled at a nationwide monument walkway that was underneath renovation.
After slipping and falling on the Mount Rushmore Nationwide Memorial, Autumn Hilger sued the federal government for negligence, however her claims had been dismissed by the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of South Dakota’s Western Division for an absence of material jurisdiction. The decrease court docket had utilized the discretionary-function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in making its determination.
