Corr v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

(1) Whether, as the United States implicitly conceded below, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) exercises sufficient federal power to mandate separation-of-powers scrutiny for purposes of a suit seeking injunctive relief and invoking the Little Tucker Act to seek monetary relief; and (2) whether the Metropolitan Washington Airports Act of 1986, 49 U.S.C. §" 49101 et seq., which transferred to MWAA all of the federal government's "rights, liabilities, and obligations" concerning, inter alia, Dulles Airport and its "access highways and other related facilities," violates the separation of powers, including the Executive Vesting, Appointments, and Take Care Clauses of Article II, by depriving the president of control over MWAA, an entity exercising " as the United States admits " executive branch functions pursuant to federal law. CVSG: 05/22/2015.