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The Continuing Drift Of Federal Sovereign Immunity Jurisprudence, Gregory C. Sisk Nov 2008

The Continuing Drift Of Federal Sovereign Immunity Jurisprudence, Gregory C. Sisk

William & Mary Law Review

With the enduring doctrine of federal sovereign immunity, it is too late in the day to suggest that the United States should be treated as an ordinary party in the federal courts. Yet as the Supreme Court has become more comfortable with the increasingly common encounter with a statutory waiver of immunity, the rigidity of interpretive approach has eased. An early jaundiced judicial attitude has resolved into a greater respect for the legislative promise of relief to those harmed by their government. After sketching the history of statutory waivers over the past century-and-a-half and examining Supreme Court decisions across the …


All Bark And No Bite: A Modern Evidentiary Argument For The Retirement Of The Age-Old Pennsylvania Rule, Bin Wang May 2008

All Bark And No Bite: A Modern Evidentiary Argument For The Retirement Of The Age-Old Pennsylvania Rule, Bin Wang

William & Mary Law Review

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