Whitney v. Walsh

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• recognizing that state constitutional torts are now subject to the OGTCA
• holding the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act is an invocation of state sovereign immunity against constitutional tort claims against prisons
• explaining that the Oklahoma Legislature amended the GTCA in 2014 “to specify that the State’s immunity from suit extended even to torts arising from alleged deprivations of constitutional rights”
• explaining that the Oklahoma Legislature amended the OGTCA in 2014 “to specify that the State’s immunity from suit extended even to torts arising from alleged deprivations of constitutional rights”
• explaining that the Oklahoma Legislature amended the GTCA in 2014 “to specify that the [s]tate’s immunity from suit extended even to torts arising from alleged deprivations of constitutional rights”
• stating that the GTCA does not “affect claims that fail to implicate the state’s sovereign immunity, such as those against state officials in their individual capacity and those seeking only prospective injunctive relief”

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