WASHINGTON — Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro is expected to pull a last-ditch legal stunt — claiming head-of-state immunity to dodge prosecution — even as Washington argues he was never the ...

After striking out recently in the U.S. Supreme Court, business patent holders face narrowing options for fighting what one calls the "risk-free windfall" of states suing without being sued for patent ...

There was a legal maxim in England during the Middle Ages that “The King can do no wrong.” That ancient doctrine has come ...

Local governments and political subdivisions in Nebraska are legally liable for harm to private citizens, sometimes paying publicly disclosed settlements. In 2015, for example, the City of Bellevue ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's front steps in Washington, D.C. July 19, 2022. | Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance. After a federal appeals court held that Michigan is not immune to legal action for ...

"The plain language of § 4-160 unambiguously puts the state in the same position as a private person once sovereign immunity is waived, and, at that juncture, the state retains all the rights and ...