State Ex Rel. St. Louis Housing Authority v. Gaertner

DONNELLY, Judge.

Relator St. Louis Housing Authority seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent from proceeding against it in the underlying tort action. According to relator, Missouri’s codification of the doctrine of sovereign immunity, § 537.600, RSMo 1978, restricts a circuit court’s power to entertain tort claims asserted against State entities such as itself. We agree and make our provisional rule in prohibition absolute.

The underlying case is in several counts, and alleges that plaintiff Royal Matthews was shot by two security guards at the St. Louis Housing Authority’s Vaughn…