Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. The Alaska Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Section 702 “eliminat[es]” the “sovereign immunity defense in all actions for specific, nonmonetary relief against a United States agency or officer acting in an official capacity”
• holding that sovereign immunity did not bar claim for equitable relief
• appellants could not maintain an action against the Alaska Railroad and the United States agencies and officers that supervise its operation
• “the United States, its agencies and 5 officials, remain outside the reach of the Sherman Act.”
• “[T]he 15 United States, its agencies and officials, remain outside the reach of the Sherman Act”
• “Congress had a clear occasion to address the issue in 1955 but failed to do so.... We believe a court should not infer such a judgment from the silence of Congress.”

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