ENVIROTEST SYS. v. COM'R OF MOTOR VEHICLES

No. 18156.

978 A.2d 49 (2009)

293 Conn. 382

ENVIROTEST SYSTEMS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided September 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory T. D'Auria, associate attorney general, with whom were Peter R. Huntsman, assistant attorney general and, on the brief, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, for the appellant (defendant).

Dominic Fulco III, with whom, on the brief, were Justin M. Pawluk and Edward F. Spinella, Hartford, for the appellee (plaintiff).

NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER, ZARELLA and McLACHLAN, Js.


ZARELLA, J.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether General Statutes § 14-164c(e),1 by force of necessary implication, waives the state's sovereign immunity from suit. The defendant, the commissioner of motor vehicles (commissioner), appeals2 from the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss the action of the plaintiff, Envirotest Systems Corporation, claiming...

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