Legal Opinion

Turnbull v. Fink

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided October 26, 1995No. 79, 1994PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*1373HARTNETT, Justice, for the majority.

This is an Interlocutory Appeal. The Plaintiffs-Appellants challenge pre-trial rulings of the Superior Court as to the extent to which the State waived its sovereign immunity by the purchase of commercial liability insurance covering accidents involving two buses operated by the Delaware Administration for Regional Transit (“DART”). The issue presented to the Superior Court was which statute controls these proceedings: 2 Del.C. § 1329, enacted by 66 Del.Laws C. 360 (“1989 Bond Act”), or 18 Del.C. § 6511. Title 2, Del.C. § 1329 waives the State’s sovereign…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Loving v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Dunn v. BlumsteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Orr v. OrrSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. Lalli v. LalliSupreme Court of the United States · 1978

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3Cited by33 opinions

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