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  2. Sovereign immunity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has waived sovereign immunity to a limited extent, mainly through the Federal Tort Claims Act, which waives the immunity if a tortious act of a federal employee causes damage, and the Tucker Act, which waives the immunity over claims arising out of contracts to which the federal government is a party. The Federal Tort Claims ...

  3. Sovereign immunity - Wikipedia

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    The United States has waived sovereign immunity to a limited extent, mainly through the Federal Tort Claims Act, which waives the immunity if a tortious act of a federal employee causes damage, and the Tucker Act, which waives the immunity over claims arising out of contracts to which the federal government is a party. [55]

  4. Abrogation doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The abrogation doctrine is a US constitutional law doctrine expounding when and how the Congress may waive a state's sovereign immunity and subject it to lawsuits to which the state has not consented (i.e., to "abrogate" their immunity to such suits). In Seminole Tribe v.

  5. Tucker Act - Wikipedia

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    The Tucker Act (March 3, 1887, ch. 359, 24 Stat. 505, 28 U.S.C. § 1491) is a federal statute of the United States by which the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits.

  6. Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1 (1890), the Supreme Court ruled that the amendment reflects a broader principle of sovereign immunity. As Justice Anthony Kennedy later stated in Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999): [S]overeign immunity derives not from the Eleventh Amendment but from the structure of the original Constitution itself. ...

  7. State immunity - Wikipedia

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    The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or ...

  8. US cannot destroy Texas razor-wire migrant barrier, appeals ...

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    Duncan said the federal government waived its sovereign immunity, and rejected its concerns that a ruling for Texas would impede the enforcement of immigration law and undermine the government's ...

  9. McCarran Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666 (1952) is a federal law enacted by the United States Congress in 1952 which waives the United States' sovereign immunity in suits concerning ownership or management of water rights. It amended Chapter 15 (Appropriation of Waters; Reservoir Sites) of Title 43 (Public Lands) of the United States Code.