Carter v. Chesterfield County Health Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• repeating Hampton Redevelopment’s holding that the negligent “operation and maintenance of [a] housing project” involves “a proprietary function of the housing authority”
• “A function is considered governmental if it is the exercise of an entity’s political, discretionary, or legislative authority.”
• “the principles for differentiating governmental and proprietary functions are easily recited, as we have often noted, application of these principles ‘has occasioned much difficulty’” (quoting Ashbury v. City of Norfolk, 152 Va. 278, 282 (1929))
• “the principles for differentiating governmental and proprietary functions are easily recited, as we have often noted, application of these principles ‘has occasioned much difficulty’” (quoting Ashbury v. City of Norfolk, 152 Va. 278, 282 (1929))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).