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WILSON v. BIG SANDY HEALTHCARE, INC.

Civil No. 07-152-GFVT.

553 F.Supp.2d 825 (2008)

Melissa WILSON, Josh Wilson, and Estate of Nicholas Hunter Wilson, Plaintiffs, v. BIG SANDY HEALTHCARE, INC., Angela K. Maggard, M.D., Joanna Santiesteban, M.D., and Unknown Defendants, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, Southern Division, Pikeville.

April 2, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Michael Lucas, Miller Kent Carter & Michael Lucas, PLLC, Pikeville, KY, for Plaintiffs.

Thomas Lee Gentry, U.S. Attorney's Office, Lexington, KY, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GREGORY F. VAN TATENHOVE, District Judge.

That the citizens may not sue the king is a principle as old as the common law. By the time of Bracton (1268) it was settled doctrine that the King could not be sued eo nomine in his own courts. Jaffe, Louis L., Suits Against Governments and Officers: Sovereign Immunity, 77 Harv. L.Rev. 1, 2 (1963). For us, rejection of a monarch, did not include rejection of this protection. United States...

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