re: Parents of slain student file claim against AU.

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Limited immunity. Not anything close to the way Alabama does it. I promise you if this happened at UT then UT would be sued directly as it is every year for all kinds of cases.

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Some cases aren't covered by sovereign immunity laws and Alabama is sued hundreds if not thousands of times a year too, but as to your claim that Alabama is somehow different well you're just plain wrong.

Source

In case you don't care to download the paper, I'll summarize for you. All of the states have some form of sovereign immunity. 36 have set damages caps and of those 36, 28 set damage caps equal or less than Alabama's cap of $1,000,000. Some (actually most) of them much lower - Arkansas is $12,500 and Connecticut is $7,500. 11 of the states have a board of adjustment/claims to hear the matter.

Sorry to bust your bubble.