Betts-Lucas v. Hartmann

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “[s]overeign immunity, if not waived, bars suits against employees in their official capacity, as such suits are essentially direct claims against the state.”
• reiterating the findings in Dixon that the Fund constitutes a voluntary assumption of defense and payment of judgment or claims against state employees, and as such, sovereign immunity is not an issue in a claim by a plaintiff seeking recovery from the State Legal Expense Fund
• reiterating the findings in Dixon that the Fund constitutes a voluntary assumption of defense and payment of judgment or claims against state employees, and as such, sovereign immunity is not an issue in a claim by a plaintiff seeking recovery from the State Legal Expense Fund
• “Sovereign immunity, if not waived, bars suits against employees in their official capacity, as such suits are essentially direct claims against the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).