sovereign immunity

Sovereign immunity was not used to cut down the trees.

The state court also dismissed the case based on sovereign immunity.

The answer given by the five Justices was "sovereign immunity."

Indeed, the question of jurisdiction and sovereign immunity was taken up by both sides.

Conservatives find support for sovereign immunity in the 11th Amendment.

States are also protected against lawsuits by their sovereign immunity.

So they asked for a waiver of sovereign immunity claims.

Sovereign immunity is available to countries in international court.

But the suit was thrown out because of the legal principle known as sovereign immunity.

This is a clear waiver of the tribe's sovereign immunity.

Already lawyers have raised the modern version of that "sovereign immunity" defense in the Ohio case.

"But we're private, not an arm of a nation; we don't have any sovereign immunity to begin with," the lawyer explained.

Because of sovereign immunity, the government was not sued.

Florida's "sovereign immunity" law is based on the common law that government cannot do wrong.

The Indian speakers said sovereign immunity gave them basic protection from bankruptcy.

But the sovereign immunity defense, while strong, is not ironclad, and the case has been appealed.

Sovereign immunity means nothing the World Bank does can be punished.

Did they possess sovereign immunity between then and ratification of the Constitution?

In 1999, the state argued that the case should be dismissed outright because it had sovereign immunity.

However, we now enter upon the age when the defense of "sovereign immunity" for state crimes has been held to be void.

It ruled that the Government's sovereign immunity extends to its contractors.

Neither the 11th Amendment nor the doctrine of sovereign immunity places any limit on that power.

Therefore, green libertarians call for the abolition of sovereign immunity.

The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with.

He offers no compelling reason to curtail sovereign immunity or tribal rights.