31. Since BYU is a private school, it does not have the protection of sovereign immunity and thus could be tithing to the eight it left behind. 32. Sovereign immunity inevitably places a lesser value on administering justice to the individual than on giving government a license to act arbitrarily. 33. Sovereign immunity is essential to self-governance because it protects the public treasury and shields governments from being sued into extinction. 34. So they asked for a waiver of sovereign immunity claims. 35. Some version of the law, known as sovereign immunity, exists in many states, an effort to protect public agencies from frivolous or outrageously large lawsuits. 36. Sovereign immunity allows governments to serve and provide services to the citizenry within their jurisdiction by protecting them from raids upon their treasuries. 37. Sovereign immunity means that a government cannot be sued unless it consents to be. 38. Sovereign immunity protects governments from unwarranted attacks on their treasuries and undue intrusion on governmental functions. 39. Sovereign immunity, after all, inheres in the permissible exercise of state power. 40. That possible legal action against the US government faces the obstacle of sovereign immunity, which protects the US from damage claims. |
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