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Oklahoma: Sovereign Immunity Prohibits Lawsuits Over Prisoner Medical Care

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court held on December 4, 2018 that the state is entitled to sovereign immunity to all tort suits, including violations of constitutional rights, arising out of the “operation or maintenance of any prison, jail or correctional facility.”

That ruling came in consolidated cases where two federal district courts ...

 

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