Spangler v. Florida State Turnpike Authority

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• noting that a statutory waiver of sovereign immunity “will not be reached as a product of inference or implication”
• noting that a statutory waiver of sovereign immunity “will not be reached as a product of inference or implication”
• noting that sovereign immunity “is a part of the public policy of the state” that “is enforced as a protection of the public against profligate encroachments on the public treasury”
• explaining that “the immunity of the sovereign is a part of the public policy of the state” and “enforced as a protection of the public against profligate encroachments on the public treasury”
• noting that “statutes purporting to waive the sovereign immunity must be clear and unequivocal,” and that to enforce the State’s public policy, “[w]aiver will not be reached as a product of inference or implication”
• sue and be sued provision did not waive turnpike authority's immunity from liability for tort

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).