U.S. Supreme Court Procedure
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RE: SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
2024 Term of Court The federal government claims “sovereign immunity” from lawsuits for damages, but Congress has enacted several statutes that implicitly waive that immunity. Two of the statutes explicitly allow lawsuits for damages against the government’s law enforcement officers, for assaults, batteries, false imprisonments, false arrests, abuses of process, and malicious prosecutions, each of Continue reading
