Drake v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \the liability to pay money to plaintiff is asserted as arising by virtue of the named defendant's activity in his official capacity as a public officer of the State of Maine\
• “the sovereign immunity of the [sjtate of Maine extends to actions which purport to assert a liability against the [s]tate other than liability in tort”
• “In the absence of specific authority conferred by an enactment of the Legislature, therefore, the sovereign’s immunity from suit cannot be waived .... ”
• “The immunity of the sovereign from suit is one of the highest attributes inherent in the nature of sovereignty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).