State Ex Rel. Cravens v. Nixon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sovereign immunity \bars holding the government or its political subdivisions liable for the torts of its officers or agents unless such immunity is expressly waived\
• holding that sovereign immunity is not available as a defense to claims to recover from the SLEF where the underlying litigation is against state employees and not the state itself
• noting that suits against state officers or employees in their official capacities \are essentially direct claims against the state\
• finding that sovereign immunity was “simply not applicable” and therefore did not bar an inmate‟s petition for writ of mandamus to compel payment of judgment under the State Legal Expense Fund for a state employee‟s sexual assault of the inmate
• finding it unnecessary to decide in that case whether those defendants were bound by the federal findings because the circuit court adopted its own findings
• court did not address issue because the circuit court made its own independent findings

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