Margaret L. Hitchcock and Wilbur W. Hitchcock v. United States of America, Margaret L. Hitchcock and Wilbur W. Hitchcock v. United States

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

In this case the Government appeals a judgment for plaintiffs under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Because we find that the district court applied the proper law, did not err in its findings of negligence and causation, and properly ruled the “discretionary function” exception to the Act inapplicable, we affirm.

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In March 1972 Mr. Wilbur W. Hitchcock, a career Foreign Service Officer, was reassigned from his post in Quebec, Canada, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. To prepare for that post, he was temporarily assigned to attend language classes at the Foreign Service Institute in…