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Showing posts with label sovereign immunity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sovereign immunity. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Shoe on other foot as US claims sovereign immunity in foreign court for firing Malaysian embassy worker

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The U.S. Embassy in KL commemorates flight MH17 in 2014. (Embassy photo, public domain, via Flickr ) Malaysian courts have been wrestling w...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Court denies police immunity under state tort claims act in death of intoxicated man in protective custody

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Michael Coghlan CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man in police protective custody, the defe...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Sovereign immunity shields Texas power overseer from liability for now: not so privatized after all

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NASA satellite image of Houston with area blackouts, Feb. 16 The cold-induced electric-power disaster in Texas is raising questions about t...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Alien tort animates U.S. lawsuit in abduction of 'Hotel Rwanda' hero, threatens immunity of social media

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Paul Rusesabagina at the University of Michigan in 2014 ( photo by Ford School of Public Policy CC BY-ND 2.0 ) The alien tort statute has ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

State tort claims act disallows claim of 911 negligence

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Plaintiffs in a fatal stabbing could not overcome sovereign immunity in alleging negligent delay of emergency response, the Massachusetts Ap...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Immunity shields tweeting legislators from libel suits, Elizabeth Warren from high school plaintiffs

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High schoolers from Kentucky will not get their day in court against Elizabeth Warren. The students' lawsuit, high profile in the politi...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Talk traces 'nuisance' from King Henry I to COVID-19

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Yesterday I had the privilege to present in a lecture series (virtually) at Jagiellonian University (UJ) on the tort of nuisance in Amer...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Area man signposts 'sovereign immunity site'

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Attorney Dan Greenberg , friend of the blog and a federal policy adviser in Washington, D.C., contributes this photo from his home neighbo...
Monday, November 11, 2019

For Veterans Day, let's push through Congress bipartisan Feres doctrine waiver for medmal claims

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Veterans Day Painting.   (Details at end of story.) The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) authorizes tort actions against the U.S. federal ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court widens tort liability exposure of New Deal-era, state-owned enterprises

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On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held against the Government by reversing and remanding unanimously in Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Author...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Advocates in SCOTUS case on tort and sovereign immunity stick to their guns, frustrate Court's search for middle ground

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For the Federalist Society SCOTUScast podcast series, I recorded a commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Thacker v. Tenness...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Federal court holds Syria liable to U.S. family for $300m in killing of journalist Marie Colvin

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Syria owes more than $300m in wrongful death damages to the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while working for the...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Court dismisses prolonged suit against Government over 2009 Ft. Hood mass shooting

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From the Defense Department : "Jeffrey and Sheryll Pearson look at the portrait of their son, Army Pfc. Michael Pearson, before the...