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

Safe Flight Instrument Corp. v. Sundstrand Data Control, Inc., 498 U.S. 919 (1990)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: October 15, 1990
Docket: No. 90-144
Citations: 498 U.S. 919111 S. Ct. 295112 L. Ed. 2d 24959 U.S.L.W. 32931990 U.S. LEXIS 5281

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C. A. Fed. Cir. Certiorari denied.

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(endorsing broad governmental immunity for injuries such as drowning where flood-control project and activities increase probability of their occurrence)

Williams v. United States, 957 F.2d 742 (10th Cir. 1992)
(Wyoming Environmental Quality Act failed to inform owner of any particular business that property will be subject to warrantless inspections)

S & S Pawn Shop Inc. v. City of Del City, 947 F.2d 432 (10th Cir. 1991)
(upholding trial court determination that Fifth Amendment privilege cannot “be used as a shield to avoid disclosure of assets”)

State v. Smith, 677 A.2d 1058 (Me. 1996)
(not a search; if it is, it was not unreasonable because there was no expectation of privacy)

Cole v. State, 858 S.W.2d 915 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1993)
(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)

Swain v. United States, 825 F. Supp. 966 (D. Kan. 1993)
(“If § 702c has limits, they have to do with causation.”)

Donald Cantrell Dorla Cantrell, His Wife v. United States, Dep't of the Army Corps of Engineers, 89 F.3d 268 (6th Cir. 1996)
(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.”)

United States v. Davis, 50 M.J. 426 (C.A.A.F. 1999)

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Cannon v. City & County of Denver998 F.2d 867 (10th Cir. 1993)
Artes-Roy v. Aspen31 F.3d 958 (10th Cir. 1994)

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United States v. Davis50 M.J. 426 (C.A.A.F. 1999) · Concurrence
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