CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge: Unlike early English law, where according to Blaekstone there existed an established rule “that the king can do no wrong,” 1 W. Blaekstone, Commentaries *68, our jurisprudence was nourished in different soil. It is plain that sometimes a sovereign government can do wrong. In the present appeal more than a few wrongs have been charged by plaintiffs against several state officials. In examining…
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