Burns v. Mayor of Rockville

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• holding that the city engaged in a governmental function where it derived “little or no dollar profit or emolument” from charging tickets for a ballet program
• rejecting the plaintiffs’ attempt to separate the recreational program of ballet in the civic center building from the maintenance of the building in which the program was conducted
• a municipality exercises a governmental function when it presents a ballet as part of its operation of a civic center

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).