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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

comparable to sovereign immunity, though it protects government employees rather than the government itself. It is less strict than absolute immunity, by protecting...

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which politicians or other political leaders are granted full immunity from legal...

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...

Supreme Court case holding that the US Bankruptcy Code's waiver of sovereign immunity does not entitle a bankruptcy trustee to recover a debtor's fraudulent...

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)....

(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):...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

areas implicating the structural constitution, such as federalism, sovereign immunity, nondelegation, preemption, or federal spending with strings attached...

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...

did not give the United States Congress the power to abrogate the sovereign immunity of the states that is further protected under the Eleventh Amendment...

the Supreme Court of the United States relating to the doctrine of sovereign immunity. Florida Prepaid was a companion case to the similarly named (but...