Legal Opinion
Gibson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 2, 1980No. 155, 156, 157, 161 and 172PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
This court abrogated sovereign immunity on July 14, 1978, in Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways, 479 Pa. 384, 388 A.2d 709 (1978), application for reargument denied, 479 Pa. 411, 390 A.2d 181 (1978). Thereafter the Legislature promulgated Act 152 creating, for the first time in Pennsylvania, statutory sovereign immunity. Act of September 28, 1978, P.L. 788, §§ 1 et seq. This case presents the question of whether it is constitutional to apply Act 152 to causes which became actionable prior to the Act. Because we conclude that Act 152 may not…
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