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... This research, which focuses on tort liability defense practices and cases involving the exercise of discretion in design, will hopefully provide a framework for determining successful strategies employed when defending design decisions made following the principles of CSS. This digest explores the concept of discretion as a defense to government tort liability, and defending these actions based on the designers' and policy-makers' discretion may be described by terms such as governmental immunity, official immunity, design immunity, or policy immunity.
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