Young v. Greater Portland Transit District

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a statute providing-that a government entity may “sue or be sued” was insufficient to constitute an express waiver
• holding that Maine \narrowly construe[s] express waivers\ of sovereign immunity, and concluding the \right to 'sue [or] be sued'\ as used in public transit system's statutory charter was not waiver of sovereign immunity
• finding an exclusion in an uninsured motorist policy for vehicles owned by government entities to be void as against public policy
• finding that language in a municipal transit district's charter permitting it to \sue or be sued\ was not an explicit waiver of governmental immunity divesting the district of the protections of the Maine Tort Claims Act
• declining to apply the expressio unius maxim to an unambiguous statute
• “[T]he insurer has other means available to it to protect [its subrogation] rights. In any event, subrogation rights are generally of little practical importance in this area of the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).