The Virginia Supreme Court ruled sovereign immunity did not protect a city trash truck driver who ran a stop sign while ...

The Virginia Court of Appeals held sovereign immunity barred claims against a public board member acting within statutory ...

Rep. Fiona McFarland debating her sovereign immunity bill on April 8, 2025, in the House Judiciary Committee. (Photo via the Florida Channel) A highly contentious battle over how much money people ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — In a recent development in a lawsuit by the company 605 Cannabis against the South Dakota Department of Health (DOH), DOH lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the suit, citing ...

In the recent Arizona federal court case, Xia v. Harrah’s Arizona Corp., 1 five individuals, Jie Xia, Necy Sundquist, Mary Grace Abon, Susan Samons, and Maria Henry (Plaintiffs), brought wrongful ...

"'[L]oading' the decedent into the back of the patrol car was inherently a part of the detention process because the decedent could not have been detained inside the patrol car without having been ...

The doctrine of sovereign immunity is a foundational element of the interplay between a governmental investor’s contractual obligation to satisfy capital calls and a fund’s or lender’s ability to ...

For years, Florida has protected the purse, not the people. Luckily, the Legislature gets a chance to fix that this session by amending the state’s sovereign immunity law. Lawmakers had a chance to do ...

Trade secret cases often follow a similar pattern. A business partnership or relationship with a contractor falls apart, and one party sets off with the other's trade secret. A lawsuit then follows in ...

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The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also protects the operator of the Texas electric grid. The ...

The court turns to sovereign immunity on Wednesday when it hears argument in Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. The case involves the board ...