Kea-Ham Contracting, Inc. v. Floyd County Development Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• noting Berns’s “key factor is ... whether, when viewed as a whole, the entity is carrying out a function integral to state government”
• “Government entities are not protected by sovereign immunity on one project without protection on another by virtue of the source of funding for the particular project.”
• “Thus the decisive issue here is whether Spurlock, by sending the letter assuring that interim financing was in place, performed a discretionary or a ministerial act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Yanero v. Davis
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-11-21· cited 533×
• Rowan County v. Sloas
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-09-26· cited 204×
• Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Corp.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-10-01· cited 72×
• Jerauld ex rel. Robinson v. Kroger
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2011-08-05· cited 13×
• Snow Pallet, Inc. v. Clinton County Industrial Development Authority
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-09-04· cited 6×
• Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Ethics Commission v. Schardein
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2008-07-18· cited 1×
• LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON CTY METRO v. Schardein
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2008-07-18
• Terri Bradshaw v. Capital Community economic/industrial Development Authority
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-12-05

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Withers v. University of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-02-27· cited 131×
• Upchurch v. Clinton County
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1959-12-18· cited 97×
• Franklin County, Ky. v. Malone
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 90×
• Kentucky Center for the Arts Corp. v. Berns
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-01-17· cited 78×
• Inco, Ltd. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1985-11-08· cited 9×