Davies v. City of Bath

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• balancing the interests that would be harmed by full retrospective application against the interests harmed by prospective application from a date certain
• applying decision to abolish governmental immunity from tort liability prospectively because retroactive application would “unfairly impose liability on governmental units that were unprepared to meet the high costs of tort damages”
• statutes intended to curtail harsh effects of municipal immunity did not transform doctrine from court-made rule to legislative policy
• no constitutional provision imposes sovereign immunity in Maine; judicial rejection of the doctrine
• overruling cases applying sovereign immunity
• overruling cases applying sovereign immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).