Thomas, William v. Network Solutions

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that company in charge of Internet domain names is a private actor
• assuming that congressional ratification mooted an unauthorized-tax claim
• affirming dismissal of essential facilities claim because plaintiffs were not competitors of defendants
• “[L]egislation may confirm and render lawful otherwise unlawful federal agency actions . . . .”
• “A contractor might be free to perform the contract in any number of ways, only one of which is anticompetitive.”
• “is hereby legalized and ratified and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had, by prior act of Congress, been specifically 5 authorized and directed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).