St. Edward Mercy Medical Center v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sovereign immunity does not so implicate subject matter jurisdiction that it allows collateral attack on final judgment
• holding that parties cannot escape binding effect of court’s final decision “on an issue over which it has jurisdiction”
• holding that sovereign immunity implicates subject matter jurisdiction, but not to . an extent allowing collateral attack on final judg ment
• noting that a “final judgment” means “one where the trial court has rendered a final judgment and all direct appeals have been exhausted”
• noting that “lost profits . . . are consequential damages that may not be recovered under [section 271.153]”
• explaining nature of this jurisdictional impediment and that it operates prior to a judgment becoming final for appellate purposes

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