Howe v. Handley

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that the SLEF is limited to coverage of the state, agencies of the state, and their officers and employees
• distinguishing the state and agencies of the state for sovereign immunity and the SLEF purposes from public entities as defined in MOPERM's enabling legislation
• distinguishing school district, which is a “political subdivision,” from the “agenc[ies] of the state” covered by the State Legal Expense Fund, § 105.711.2(1)
• differentiating between the state and agencies of the state from other public entities that may enjoy sovereign immunity but that are not covered by the SLEF
• distinguishing public entities eligible for MOPERM coverage \for which right they must pay\ from the \free coverage funded by the General Assembly's appropriations\ provided to the state, agencies of the state, and their officers and employees
• “We disagree with Plaintiff, however, that the state's relationship to the Board of Police Commissioners of St. Louis[, at issue in Smith,] is comparable to the state's relationship to its school districts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).