State v. Sharafeldin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the State cannot waive its sovereign immunity in contract actions where the claimant fails to file within the one year deadline
• opining that the State’s immunity from suit is “one of the highest attributes of sovereignty” and that courts decline to abrogate sovereign immunity by judicial fiat
• finding that the Maryland Legislature did not “waive the State’s Eleventh Amendment immunity in [contract] actions in Federal court”
• defining “in a court of the State” as “a court that is part of the Maryland judiciary”
• distinguishing between the concepts of subject matter jurisdiction and immunity, observing that a time requirement for bringing a breach of contract action against the State, contained in Md.Code (1984, 2009 Repl.Vol.), State Government (\SG\
• “State agencies may not, on their own, waive sovereign immunity ‘either affirmatively or by failure to plead it.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).