United States v. Five Hundred & Eight Barrels of Distilled Spirits

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• by conferring the Virgin Islands Housing Authority (“VIHA”) with the power to sue and be sued, the government waived sovereign immunity with respect to VIHA as a separate entity from the government
• “by creating VIHA as a public body corporate and politic, and decisively conferring it with the power to sue and be sued, the government was clearly and unequivocally waiving sovereign immunity with respect to VIHA in its capacity as a ‘separate entity’ from the government”

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