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

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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 ...

"'[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 ...

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 ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — In several recent lawsuits against Texas, attorneys for the state argued for dismissal due to “sovereign immunity.” But what does that mean for Texans? The legal doctrine holds that a ...

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 ...

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 ...