CONNER BROS. CONST. CO., INC. v. Geren

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that raising taxes on a contractor’s inputs, denying a contractor access to a city during wartime, and embargoing a shipment of goods are sovereign acts
• holding that denial of installation access to contractor was a sovereign act
• holding that Colonel Yotel’s exclusion order barring contractors from the base for several weeks following 9/11 was a sovereign act because it was issued to preserve the secrecy of troop deployment operations, not to delay performance of the contract
• stating that “this court has treated th[e plurality] opinion [in Winstar] as setting forth the core principles underlying the sovereign acts doctrine”
• stating that “this court has treated th[e plurality] opinion [in Winstar] as setting forth the core principles underlying the sovereign acts doctrine”
• finding it relevant that the “government gained no economic advantage” in exercising its sovereign powers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).