A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a pair of private sector defendants in a personal injury suit may seek a new venue under a section of the Sovereign Immunity Act despite their state agency co-defendant’s objections to the move. 

The Commonwealth Court’s Wednesday decision centered on the scope of Section 8523(a) of the Judicial Code, which establishes that state entities may only be sued in the county where either the incident at issue arose or where that entity is located. The court examined whether, in a suit against both state and nonstate defendants, the right to object to a venue under that section lay solely with the state entity.

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