On March 2, 2021, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in Farmer v. Troy University that an Alabama university, which was operating an office in North Carolina was entitled to sovereign immunity and was therefore immune...more
The United States Supreme Court’s opinion in Hyatt v Franchise Tax Board , issued earlier this week, puts to rest twenty years of litigation with a decision concluding that the litigation was unconstitutionally filed in the...more
On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, No. 17-1299, holding that a private party may not sue a non-consenting state in another state’s courts. In Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410...more