Penn Phillips Lands, Inc. v. Department of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming district court’s decision that private water company acting as a public utility was not a state actor, notwithstanding that its power derived from state law and it was heavily regulated by the state
• “[S]imple possession of sovereign power does not convert a private entity into a state actor.”
• “[S]imple possession of sovereign power does not convert a private entity into a state actor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).