Legal Opinion · Dissent

Biello v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 16, 1973No. Appeal, 321Published

1Dissent

*187Dissenting Opinion by

Mr. Justice Nix :

I respectfully dissent.

Again, the majority of this court has refused to accept its responsibility and strike down an anachronism in the law of Pennsylvania known as sovereign immunity. Although this court and many others throughout this nation have on numerous occasions recognized the doctrine as an obsolete vestige of a distant past, a majority of this court persists in its refusal to remedy the injustices occasioned by the doctrine offering only the weak protestation that the court does not possess the power to abolish this doctrine. This conclusion is…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Chisholm v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1793
  2. Muskopf v. Corning Hospital DistrictCalifornia Supreme Court · 1961
  3. Williams v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1961
  4. Stone v. Arizona Highway CommissionArizona Supreme Court · 1963
  5. Smith v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1970

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