Legal Opinion
Cohen v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 1998No. 97-8737PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
While incarcerated in a minimum security federal prison, plaintiff William Cohen was injured when he was attacked by another prisoner. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act asserting that the Bureau of Prisons had negligently assigned his attacker to a minimum security prison. After a bench trial,'the district court entered judgment for Cohen and awarded him $250,000. Because we conclude that the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act shields the United States from liability in this case, we reverse that judgment.
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