Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Safe Flight Instrument Corp. v. Sundstrand Data Control, Inc.

111 S. Ct. 295

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1990-10-15
Topic
general

endorsing broad governmental immunity for injuries such as drowning where flood-control project and activities increase probability of their occurrence | Wyoming Environmental Quality Act failed to inform owner of any particular business that property will be subject to warrantless inspections | Wyoming Environmental Quality Act failed to inform owner of any particular business that property will be subject to warrantless inspections | upholding trial court determination that Fifth Amendment privilege cannot “be used as a shield to avoid disclosure of assets” | endorsing broad governmental immunity for injuries such as drowning where flood-control project and activities increase probability of their occurrence | not a search; if it is, it was not unreasonable because there was no expectation of privacy | Boyd injury resulted from collision between swimmer and powerboat, which occurs on natural lakes 'and purely recreational artificial lakes; none of the lake’s flood control activities increased probability of such a run-in | “If § 702c has limits, they have to do with causation.” | While declining to extend Rule 11 to confessional stipulations, the court does look to see if the trial judge "took 'special pains to satisfy himself that the waiver was knowing and voluntary to impress upon the defendant the significance of the choice to proceed by stipulation.”

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C. A. Fed. Cir. Certiorari denied.