Legal Opinion
Gulf Oil Corporation v. Panama Canal Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1969No. 25141PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
The problem here is the old, old one of sovereign immunity. Here the only new wrinkle, Mike Hooks, Inc. v. Pena, 5 Cir., 1963, 313 F.2d 696, 697, 1963 A.M.C. 355, 356, is that it has to be towed in stem-first since the governmental corporation invoking this ancient and generally discredited trapping of the King-can-do-no-wrong era is given express statutory power to sue and be sued. Of course it has to have some theory to overcome such an explicit waiver. In a sort of what-the-right-hand-giveth the left-hand-taketh-away approach, it finds this in a statutory…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. BurrSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Keifer & Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Gardner v. Panama RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. JG Menihan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Panama Canal Co. v. Grace Line, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Miguel Antonio Aparicio v. Swan Lake, Her Engines, Boilers, Tackle, Etc., Third Party v. Panama Canal Company, Third PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1981
- De Bardeleben Marine Corp., as Successor in Interest to Blue Stack Towing Company v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Charles and Charlene Baker v. F & F Investment Company, Federal Housing AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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