Laclede Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing functions essential to national defense to be comparable to those of a state agency
• recognizing the immunity of governmental corporation because of the purpose it served
• recognizing the immunity of governmental corporation because of the purpose it served
• allowing a British corporation to assert sovereign immunity because it was owned and controlled by Britain for a governmental purpose and, thus, was indistinguishable from the sovereign

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).