Compart's Boar Store, Inc. v. United States, No. 15-3147 (8th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseCompart, a producer of breeding swine, filed a negligence suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 2671 et seq. Compart intended to export over three hundred pigs to China but China suspended all imports from Compart after it was notified by the United States government that the test results from a small set of the blood samples were "inconclusive" for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSv). The district court dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction. The court affirmed, concluding that the discretionary function exemption precludes jurisdiction over Compart's negligence claims because the testing and reporting of Compart's swine was governed by discretionary governmental procedures and susceptible to policy analysis.
Court Description: Murphy, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge and Perry, District Judge] Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. In action alleging the Department of Agriculture was negligent in testing plaintiff's pigs for Poricine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome and in reporting the results to China, the district court correctly concluded the challenged actions were discretionary since they were governed by discretionary governmental procedures and susceptible to policy analysis.
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