Elizabeth River Tunnel District v. Beecher

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute which consents to suits against the state must be explicit and unambiguous
• statutory language stating that entity \may sue and be sued\ did not constitute explicit waiver of immunity
• the existence of an agreement providing for the performance of a job at a fixed price is indicative of independent contractor status
• statute providing that tunnel district \may sue and be sued\ did not waive sovereign immunity
• “The fact that the [statute] provides that it ‘may sue and be sued’ cannot be advanced as an assertion of State waiver of immunity or State consent to suit for torts.”
• in context of tort action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).