Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Corp.

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• holding that cities do not have outright immunity and explaining that cities “tend to exercise proprietary functions addressing purely local concerns”
• holding that “purely local” concerns do not qualify for sovereign immunity
• explaining that a state statute authorized the board to issue bonds in order to construct, maintain, expand, finance, or improve airport or air navigation facilities
• noting that the airport board was statutorily designated as “a legislative body” when issuing bonds to fund its projects, but focusing on its ultimate function of providing air transportation infrastructure
• explaining that the test extends sovereign immunity “to departments, boards or agencies that are such integral parts of state government as to come within regular patterns of administrative organization and structure ” (emphasis added
• listing economic development, land use planning, planning and constructing recreational facilities, public utilities, and “community interests”

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