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  • Re: What is a... transit agency?

    From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Mar 12 07:51:08 2026
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey >Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be >treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

    We have a winner! New Jersey Transit is not a state agency because state
    law established it as a corporation to allow it to retain legal history
    before the transit properties were municipalized.

    No sovereign immunity for you!

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/supreme-court-rules-that-new-jersey-transit-can-be-sued-in-other-states/

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