United States v. Nuzum
Citations
- 5 Alaska 198
Syllabus
<p>Theaters and Shows <&wkey;3—License—Moving Picture Show.</p> <p>A moving picture show is a “theater,” within the meaning of Comp. Laws 1913, § 2569, providing that any person who conducts a “theater” shall pay a license tax of $100 per annum.</p> <p><§=s>See same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>
How courts have described this case
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- noting that “Kania distinguishes between contracts relating to proprietary versus sovereign actions,” but observing that the distinction was “only loosely mapped”
- stating that “decisional law leaves no doubt that settlement agreements generally fall within” the definition of express or implied contract with the United States as used by the Tucker Act
- discussing contracting in the government’s sovereign capacity, and citing to Kania and Sanders, in particular
- citing, inter alia, Winstar Corp. v. United States, 64 F.3d 1531, 1539-40 (Fed.Cir.1995) (en banc); Boston Edison Co. v. United States, 64 Fed.Cl. 167, 178 (2005); Franconia Assocs. v. United States, 536 U.S. 129, 141, 122 S.Ct. 1993, 153 L.Ed.2d 132 (2002
- “[D]ecisional law leaves no doubt that settlement agreements generally fall within th[e] definition [of a contract].”
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Judges: Brown
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