Sovereign immunity doesn’t extend to prison guards accused of abusing an inmate, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a case stemming from the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
The high court chose Millbrook v. United States, introduced to it by a handwritten petition from a pro se inmate, to settle a split among the circuits interpreting the scope of the "law enforcement proviso" of the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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