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...

generally enjoy sovereign immunity, also known as governmental immunity, from lawsuits. Local governments in most jurisdictions enjoy immunity from some forms...

restrictive theory of sovereign immunity according to which the public acts (jure imperii) of a foreign state are entitled to immunity, while the private...

Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order...

Qualified immunity, in the United States, immunity of individuals performing tasks as part of the government's actions Sovereign immunity, the prevention...

broader principle of sovereign immunity. As Justice Anthony Kennedy later stated in Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999): [S]overeign immunity derives not from...

S. courts to bring cases against individual states, as sovereign nations they do enjoy immunity against many lawsuits, unless a plaintiff is granted a...

arose in the 1940s, and possessory litigation in the 1970s. Federal sovereign immunity bars possessory claims against the federal government, although compensatory...

from the sovereign, can be the subject of proceedings for tort and contract since 1947. There are more than 160 laws granting express immunity to the sovereign...

Security Council. The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with. Sovereign immunity waives a holder from all legal liability...

sovereign immunity from most suits. There are exceptions: when the state consents to suit; when the federal government abrogates sovereign immunity by...

South Africa, have introduced restrictive immunity by statute, which explicitly limits jurisdictional immunity to public acts, but not private or commercial...

Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction...

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which political leadership position holders such as president, vice president...

waive a state's sovereign immunity and subject it to lawsuits to which the state has not consented (i.e., to "abrogate" their immunity to such suits)....

United States law, absolute immunity is a type of sovereign immunity for government officials that confers complete immunity from criminal prosecution and...

inherited the common law version of Crown immunity from British law. However, over time, the scope of said immunity has been steadily reduced by statute law...

Supreme Court ruled that Article III, Section 2 abrogated the States' sovereign immunity and authorized federal courts to hear disputes between private citizens...

state has sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of other countries, though not from that of international tribunals. This immunity is sometimes...

Fair Credit Reporting Act unequivocally and unambiguously waives the sovereign immunity of the United States. The case came from a 2022 decision by the United...

rule's wider implication is that a state and any sovereign, unless it chooses to waive its immunity, is immune to the jurisdiction of foreign courts and the...

for prior negotiation." Although Congress has the right to waive sovereign immunity for alleged patent infringement claims under the 'government patent...

(1974), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that the sovereign immunity recognized in the Eleventh Amendment prevented a federal court from...

Immunity." Such immunity, the Court continued, is necessary to maintain state sovereignty, which lies at the heart of federalism. However, "sovereign...

Codes: thus, avoiding their use means immunity from government authority. Another common belief among sovereign citizens is that they can opt out of the...

acting on behalf of states of the union to proceed despite the State's sovereign immunity, when the State acted contrary to any federal law or contrary to the...

(CRCA) is a United States copyright law that attempted to abrogate sovereign immunity of states for copyright infringement. The CRCA amended 17 USC 511(a):...

the U.S. Congress has the power to abrogate the Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity of the states, if this is done pursuant to its Fourteenth Amendment...

hesitancy towards the belief "that tribes possess sovereign immunity at all", arguing that if immunity did exist for the tribes, it would not extend outside...

the scope of the legal doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity. It amends the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death...