Sauer v. City of Kansas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statutes impliedly waived sovereign immunity when statutory language expressly recognized “a right to adequate and humane treatment” (quotation omitted)
• “If and when we do reach the constitutionality of sovereign immunity, we would be disposed to reconsider the validity of the doctrine as it exists today.”

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