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CURTIS v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA

S92A0341.

262 Ga. 226 (1992)

416 S.E.2d 510

CURTIS et al. v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 21, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walbert & Hermann, Paul D. Hermann, Kay D. Hopkins, for appellants.

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Matthew Scott Coles, Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Sidney F. Wheeler, Earl W. Gunn, for appellees.

CLARKE, Chief Justice.

We granted this application for interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in holding that appellants' tort claim should be dismissed on the grounds of sovereign immunity because it was filed after the effective date of the 1991 amendment to Art. I, Sec. II, Par. IX of the Georgia Constitution of 1983. We hold that the "insurance waiver" of sovereign immunity provided for in the former constitutional provision was not withdrawn...

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