The Supreme Court of Virginia tells a Chesterfield Police officer that since a Petersburg judge has not ruled on immunity. there's no appeal basis.

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 ...

Issue: Whether a state is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an order having wide-reaching implications for road safety and military accountability, Punjab and Haryana high court has ...

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 ...