City of Virginia Beach v. Carmichael Development Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that governmental functions performed by a municipality are powers and duties to be performed exclusively for the public welfare
• holding, under the common law, that “[s]overeign immunity is a rule of social policy, which protects the state from burdensome interference with the performance of its governmental functions and preserves its control over state funds, property, and instrumentalities”
• defining governmental functions as “powers and duties to be performed exclusively for the public welfare”
• sovereign immunity shields municipalities from liability for governmental functions, or “when governmental and proprietary functions coincide”
• city immune from tortious interference with contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).