Bd. of Education v. Sturm

Board of Education for Wicomico County v. Rhonda B. Sturm, No. 54, September Term, 2025. COLLATERAL ORDER DOCTRINE – EFFECTIVELY UNREVIEWABLE – SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY Sovereign immunity is an immunity from suit, not merely liability, and only the General Assembly may waive it. If the State, or one of its instrumentalities or agencies, must litigate a claim to final judgment before obtaining review of an interlocutory order denying an assertion of complete sovereign immunity, it will have irretrievably lost an important aspect of that immunity. Because only the General Assembly may waive sovereign…