ELR Citation: ELR 20435
No(s). 99-35134 (9th Cir. Feb 28, 2001)

The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service's decision not to require its contract pilots to have a specific type of training is protected by the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The families of two pilots who died when the airtanker the pilots were flying dur...