Ex Parte Alabama Dept. of Mental Health

How courts have described this case

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• holding that former commissioner Sawyer was entitled to sovereign immunity on claims for monetary damages
• holding that DMHMR was entitled to absolute sovereign immunity and that former commissioner Sawyer was entitled to sovereign immunity on claims for monetary damages
• holding that DMHMR was entitled to absolute sovereign immunity and that former commissioner Sawyer was entitled to sovereign immunity on claims for monetary damages
• holding that former commissioner Sawyer was entitled to sovereign immunity on claims for monetary damages
• sovereign immunity is a jurisdictional bar that precludes a court from exercising subject-matter jurisdiction
• it is a “rare case involving the defense of [State-agent] immunity that would be properly disposed of by a dismissal pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6)”

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