Fidelity Bank v. Lutheran Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a sheriff is a public official entitled to sovereign immunity” but analyzing whether the sheriff waived “governmental immunity”
• stating that “a sheriff is a public official entitled to sovereign immunity” but analyzing whether the sheriff waived “governmental immunity”
• “{T]he purposes sought to be served by proceedings before the Department of Labor differ substantially from the purposes sought to be served by proceedings before the EEOC”
• “[T]he purchase of a bond precludes a sheriff from relying upon the protective embrace of governmental immunity . . . only where the surety is joined as a party to the action . . . and only to the extent of the amount of the bond.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).