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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 ...
The Senate heard competing interpretations of the Supreme Court's immunity decision for Donald Trump ranging from 'alarming' to 'narrow.' 'Alarming' vs 'narrow': Senate split on Supreme Court ...
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, which held that while states have sovereign immunity, it does not extend to areas of the nation's defense, and thus the state could be held liable for failing to follow USERRA, allowing Torres' lawsuit to proceed. Breyer wrote "Text, history and precedent show that the states, in coming ...
The lawsuit alleges that President Joe Biden and his administration were "working with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to censor and suppress free speech, including truthful information, related to COVID-19, election integrity, and other topics, under the guise of combating 'misinformation'."
The latter case, centered on Trump’s February 7 removal of the head of a watchdog agency, will mark the first Supreme Court test of Trump’s second-term agenda.
Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution, strictly speaking in modern texts in its own courts.
Donald Trump declined to ask the Supreme Court to take up his claim of presidential immunity from civil suits filed over his role in events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that U.S. states lack sovereign immunity from private lawsuits filed against them in the courts of another state. The majority opinion held that "nothing in the Constitution authorizes or obligates" states to grant sister states immunity in court. [1]