Mayor of Baltimore v. Hooper

How courts have described this case

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• holding, \upon considerations of public policy\ rather than sovereign immunity, that municipal corporations are not amenable to garnishment
• code section caption or headline has no relevance with respect to intent of Legislature in enacting statute within that section
• \The policy of the law which prevents the laying of attachments in the hands of public officials seeks to prevent inconvenience and the disruption of public affairs.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• \The policy of the law which prevents the laying of attachments in the hands of public officials seeks to prevent inconvenience and the disruption of public affairs.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It seems that Hooper was misled because in the code § 15-607 is headlined, ‘Waiver of Sovereign Immunity.’ But this phrase does not appear in SB 24 or in ch. 489, Acts 1982. It was not a part of the legislative enactment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).