East v. Lague

How courts have described this case

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

• abrogating common law sovereign immunity and recognizing that the legislature could reestablish governmental immunity by statute
• “[t]he effect of this opinion ... is simply to undo what this court has done and leave the situation ... in the hands of the General Assembly”; immunity laws were subsequently enacted for torts but not contracts
• plaintiff sued for damages sustained after she fell on courthouse steps
• plaintiff sued for damages sustained after she fell on courthouse steps
• abrogating sovereign immunity in Colorado
• abrogating sovereign immunity in Colorado

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).