The doctrine of sovereign immunity for municipal corporations has long reigned in Ohio. Although the judiciary and the General Assembly have imposed limitations, the doctrine has survived as a principle of Ohio law for over 140 years. However, the Supreme Court of Ohio reversed the trend and abrogated the doctrine in a series of cases in December 1982 and in the spring of the 1983 term. This comment examines the historical development of sovereign immunity for tort claims in Ohio, the limitations subsequently imposed on the immunity and its abrogation in those recent supreme court cases
Although more than one hundred and fifty years old, the case vivifying the concept of sovereign immu...
The purpose of the present Article is not to propose yet another route toward logical reconciliation...
Much as been written concerning the doctrine of governmental immunity and the doubtful justice of it...
The doctrine of sovereign immunity for municipal corporations has long reigned in Ohio. Although the...
The Ohio Supreme Court continued in 1983 to expand and define its abrogation of the doctrine of sove...
The Ohio Supreme Court\u27s recent decisions have practically abolished the defense of sovereign imm...
Under the concept of sovereign or governmental immunity, a state may not be sued in tort without its...
The decision thus promulgates three principal rulings: (1) that sovereign immunity does not provide ...
The Ohio Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity vis-a-vis the United States Constitution, fourteenth amendme...
Enghauser Manufacturing Co. v. Eriksson Engineering Ltd., 6 Ohio St. 3d 31, 451 N.E.2d 228 (1983)
In a recent Ohio case, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion that a municipality that vo...
In discussing the current statute abrogating the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the authors trace t...
The morass of recent Supreme Court state sovereign immunity jurisprudence is closely examined. Rathe...
Albritton v. Neighborhood Centers Association for Child Development, 12 Ohio St. 3d 210, 466 N.E.2d ...
This cloak of immunity in which state officials can wrap themselves to protect against damage suits ...
Although more than one hundred and fifty years old, the case vivifying the concept of sovereign immu...
The purpose of the present Article is not to propose yet another route toward logical reconciliation...
Much as been written concerning the doctrine of governmental immunity and the doubtful justice of it...
The doctrine of sovereign immunity for municipal corporations has long reigned in Ohio. Although the...
The Ohio Supreme Court continued in 1983 to expand and define its abrogation of the doctrine of sove...
The Ohio Supreme Court\u27s recent decisions have practically abolished the defense of sovereign imm...
Under the concept of sovereign or governmental immunity, a state may not be sued in tort without its...
The decision thus promulgates three principal rulings: (1) that sovereign immunity does not provide ...
The Ohio Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity vis-a-vis the United States Constitution, fourteenth amendme...
Enghauser Manufacturing Co. v. Eriksson Engineering Ltd., 6 Ohio St. 3d 31, 451 N.E.2d 228 (1983)
In a recent Ohio case, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion that a municipality that vo...
In discussing the current statute abrogating the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the authors trace t...
The morass of recent Supreme Court state sovereign immunity jurisprudence is closely examined. Rathe...
Albritton v. Neighborhood Centers Association for Child Development, 12 Ohio St. 3d 210, 466 N.E.2d ...
This cloak of immunity in which state officials can wrap themselves to protect against damage suits ...
Although more than one hundred and fifty years old, the case vivifying the concept of sovereign immu...
The purpose of the present Article is not to propose yet another route toward logical reconciliation...
Much as been written concerning the doctrine of governmental immunity and the doubtful justice of it...