Franchise Tax Board v. United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that by virtue of a sue-and-be-sued clause, the Postal Service was required to withhold unpaid state taxes from the wages of its employees even though the process was a state administrative tax levy, not an order issued by a state court
• instructing that the scope of a waiver of sovereign immunity is ascertained \by reference to congressional policy\
• stating that a \sue or be sued” entity's \liability is the same as that of any other business”
• instructing that the scope of a waiver of sovereign immunity is ascertained “by reference to congressional policy”
• instructing that the scope of a waiver of sovereign immunity is ascertained “by reference to congressional policy”
• stating that the Postal Service’s “liability is the same as that of any other business”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).