The federal government has asked for dismissal of multidistrict litigation over a breakout of a rare virus at Yosemite National Park on the ground the courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction.
Even though the government waives sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act, there is an exception for “discretionary, policy-based conduct from tort liability,” the government’s lawyers said.
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