Chothen v. Department of Transportation

ALAN R. SCHWARTZ, Circuit Judge.

The Department of Transportation has moved to dismiss this tort action brought, as against it, under F.S. §768.28, on the asserted ground that venue is improperly laid in Dade County where the accident occurred and where each “contact” with the cause of action asserted admittedly took place. The department contends that although its sovereign immunity from tort actions has been in effect obviated by F.S. §768.28, it nevertheless retains what it asserts to be its sovereign right to be sued only in the location of its official headquarters, Leon County. Without…