District of Columbia v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statute of limitations does not apply “[wjhere the District acquires a right of action directly related to its duty to perform a service to the public”
• noting that “[s]inee Congress is sovereign in the District, it enjoys the usual sovereign immunities, including the benefit of nullum tempus ” (emphasis added)
• noting that “[s]ince Congress is sovereign in the 9 District, it enjoys the usual sovereign immunities, including the benefit of nullum tempus” (emphasis added)
• employing “a functional rather than a formalistic reading of the immunity issue” that' focuses on “the extent to which the public at large is interested in the outcome” of the lawsuit
• “It is well settled that sovereigns enjoy a common-law immunity from the operation of statutes of limitations and repose.”
• District’s claim to remove asbestos from schools is in pursuit of a government function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).