A federal court in Virginia has dismissed the claim of a woman who entered a naval base and was injured when a guard activated a security barrier. Judge Mark S. Davis of the Eastern District of Virginia found the woman’s ...
Tagged with: FTCA Sovereign Immunity
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The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed a lower court’s ruling concluding that a doctor who treated inmates in a Virginia correctional center was protected by derivative sovereign immunity. The state’s high court also granted the doctor’s demurrer to a gross ...
Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Sovereign Immunity Supreme Court of Virginia
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Where the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, negligently deposited a tax refund into a fraudulent account despite being warned in time to stop it, a taxpayer’s negligence suit was barred by sovereign immunity. The government moved to dismiss on the ...
Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Sovereign Immunity U.S. District Court - Western District
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The county attorney’s office in Fairfax has three notches on its belt with recent wins using the sovereign immunity defense. In three different injury claims, judges in Fairfax and Alexandria have extended the protection of the doctrine of sovereign immunity ...
Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Sovereign Immunity
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