Sloan Shipyards Corp. v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that, although government officers may act as instrumentalities of the government, a government agent, “because he is an agent, does not cease to be answerable for his acts”
• “The meaning of incorporation is that you have a person, and as a person one that presumably is subject to the general rules of law.”
• “The meaning of incorporation is that you have a person, and as a person one that presumably is subject to the general rules of law”
• “The plaintiffs are not suing the United States but the Fleet Corporation, and if its act was unlawful, even if they might have sued the United States, they are not cut off from a remedy against the agent that did the wrongful act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).