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Anybody can sue anybody. Winning though...

• nerdponx 5y ago
  In general you can't sue the federal government.
  • epgui 5y ago
    On the contrary, that's what judicial review is for. (And there may be other mechanisms as well.)
    • otterley 5y ago
      The general rule of US and English common law is that the sovereign is immune from liability. The reason you can sue the U.S. Government is because Congress passed laws such as the Tucker Act, the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, and Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act allowing plaintiffs to do so. Judicial review doesn't generally let you sue the Government to obtain redress for injuries; it is for enforcing the people's Constitutional rights where the Government is stepping out of bounds. It doesn't let you, say, sue the FTC to get them to do their job. (This is second-year Constitutional Law, BTW.)