Yuka Kato v. Shintaro Ishihara, Governor, and Tokyo Metropolitan Government

How courts have described this case

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

• describing Tokyo’s work in New York as “basic and routine trade promotional activities”
• characterizing \product promotion for Japanese companies\ as \governmental\ and, therefore, noncommercial
• characterizing \product promotion for Japanese companies\ as \governmental\ and, therefore, noncommercial
• “The promotion abroad of the commerce of domestic firms is a basic — even quintessential-governmental function.”
• “[T]he fact that a government instrumentality like TMG is engaged in the promotion of commerce does not mean that the instrumentality is thereby engaged in commerce.”
• governmental activity includes “the employment of diplomatic, civil service, or military personnel” while commercial activity includes “employment or engagement of laborers, clerical staff or public relations or marketing agents”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).