Millbrook v. U.S., No. 11-10362 (U.S. Supreme Court) (569 U.S. 50; 133 S.Ct. 1441) (March 27, 2013) (Justice Thomas)
Under the common law principle of sovereign immunity, the Federal Government is immune from civil suit unless it has waived its immunity or consented to such a suit. The United States has waived its sovereign immunity, at least to a limited extent, mainly through the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) ...
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