Anne Arundel County v. McCormick

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• recognizing that the municipal function test is used to determine both whether municipalities are immune from suit and immune from running of statutes of limitations
• the nullum tempus doctrine has more limited effect when the plaintiff is not the state, but one of the state’s political subdivisions
• counties and municipalities can only avoid statutes of limitations if the exercise of a governmental right is at issue
• “[A]nother way of expressing the test is ‘whether the act performed is for the common good of all or for the special benefit or profit of the corporate entity.’ ” (citation omitted)
• “As a subrogee, the County had no greater rights than its subrogor, and it was bound by the same statute of limitations which governed its employee’s action.”
• the distinction between governmental and proprietary functions is sometimes illusory in practice

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