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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by

A federal judge has ruled that federal courts lack the power to reinstate an elected state prosecutor removed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis because the case centered on state law.

Where a plaintiff has brought suit over his dismissal as a student from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, the defendants’ motion for summary judgment should be allowed in part, as (1) the plaintiff’s state-law claims are barred by Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity principles to the extent that he seeks monetary damages from defendants or retroactive injunctive relief, (2) the plaintiff received adequate procedural due process prior to his dismissal and (3) the plaintiff cann...

Whether Puerto Rico enjoys the same immunity from lawsuits that U.S. states have was considered by the Supreme ...

Because Congress abrogated tribal sovereign immunity with respect to the automatic stay provision, the Tribe cannot assert sovereign immunity to avoid sanctions for violation of the automatic stay."

We continue our alphabetical 50-state survey of sovereign immunity with our fourth installment in the series ..

Summary of sovereign immunity in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine and Maryland. While sovereign immunity can be a complex area of the law, at a high level, it’s a rather simple principle: the government cannot be sued unless it first consents.

ERIE – Two county boards of election have opposed litigation from six voters’ rights groups against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel officials to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”

It's like a gimme question on the MPRE.

On December 22, 2022, the 117th Congress passed with bipartisan support an omnibus spending bill, which includes two measures that expand rights for pregnant and nursing...