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24 March 2020CopyrightRory O'Neill

SCOTUS hands initiative to Congress on state immunity

Copyright lobbyists have urged US lawmakers to revisit the statute on state sovereign immunity in the wake of yesterday’s US Supreme Court ruling in Allen v Cooper.

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