The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit verified the termination of a slip-and-fall claim versus the federal government under the discretionary-function exception, holding it used a lady’s claims after she took a tumbled at a nationwide monolith sidewalk that was under restoration.
After slipping and falling at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Fall Hilger took legal action against the federal government for carelessness, however her claims were dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota’s Western Department for an absence of subject jurisdiction. The lower court had actually used the discretionary-function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in making its choice.