Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

Another Supreme Court case helps identify the opposite boundary.

LeBron v.

National Railroad Passenger Corporation The Court treated Amtrak as government for First Amendment purposes or the federal government had created the corporation by special law for governmental objectives and retained permanent authority to appoint

a majority of its directors.

But

LeBron does not mean that minority federal ownership transforms a private company into the state.

mere ownership is not the holding.

Actual architecture mattered.