justification for the nullum tempus doctrine was needed, as the legislatures and courts limited the sovereigns’ immunity from suit); Northampton County Area Community College, 566 A.2d at 595 (discussing Commonwealth Dep’t of Transp. v. J. W. Bishop & Co., 497 Pa. 58, 439 A.2d 101 (1981), noting that the court concluded that immunity from limitations was still viable in light of abrogation of sovereign immunity); Oklahoma City Mun. Improvement Auth., 769 P.2d at 134 (function test which applies to sovereign immunity from suit is not to be equated with immunity from limitations); and City of Shelbyville, 451 N.E.2d at 875-76, 71 Ill.Dec. at 721-22 (abolition of immunity from liability does not require abolition of immunity from limitations). But see Anne Arundel County, 594 A.2d at 1141 (<HOLDING>). 12 . See discussion supra part
holding united states government is immune from rico suit recognizing that municipalities immunity from punitive damage awards under section 1983 does not render them immune from suit altogether holding state immune from suit involving a federal question recognizing that the municipal function test is used to determine both whether municipalities are immune from suit and immune from running of statutes of limitations holding state immune from suit brought in state court