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The meaning of sovereign immunity in the United States is contested.[1]

Nevada v. Hall

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The U.S. Supreme Court had previously ruled in a similar case, the 1979 case Nevada v. Hall.[2]

Hall and others were severely injured after their car collided with a car driven by a University of Nevada employee on a California highway. Hall and others went on to sue the State of Nevada for damages. While a California trial court originally ruled that Nevada was not amenable to suits in California courts, the Supreme Court of California overruled this decision. Then, Nevada was unsuccessful in their attempt to invoke a Nevada statue limiting the liability of its state agencies to $25,000 per tort[n 1] on the basis of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Hall and others were awarded $1,150,000 and this judgement was affirmed on appeal. Nevada was denied review by the Supreme Court of California, after which they filed a petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court.[3]

In 1979, the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision in Nevada v. Hall, which held that the Constitution does not grant states sovereign immunity from private suits against them in the courts of other states.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Jackson 2003, p. 523.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sacramento Bee was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Interstate sovereign immunity in Nevada v Hall". Constitutional Law Reporter. 2019-01-11. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  4. ^ "Nevada v. Hall". Oyez. Archived from the original on June 22, 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-20.

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