RIVERA v. WASHINGTON

Nos. S15G0887, S15G0912.

784 S.E.2d 775 (2016)

298 Ga. 770

RIVERA v. WASHINGTON. Forsyth County. v. Appelrouth et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 25, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Keith Strickland, Paul Michael Scott, Gregory Todd Carter, Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland & Watkins, LLP, Brunswick, for appellant.

Vera Sharon Edenfield, Edenfield, Cox, Bruce, & Classens, P.C., Statesboro, Mawuli M. Malcolm Davis, Robert O. Bozeman, The Davis Bozeman Law Firm, P.C., Decatur, George Brian Spears, G. Brian Spears, P.C., W. Davis Hewitt, Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson, LLP, Atlanta, James Stuart Teague, Jr., Keisha Leigh Martin Chambless, Teague & Chambless, LLLP, Cumming, for appellee.

Patrick T. O'Connor, Paul H. Threlkeld, Oliver Maner LLP, Savannah, for amicus appellee.


This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in these cases to consider its decisions to dismiss the direct appeals that defendants filed from the trial courts' denials of their motions to dismiss that were based on claims of quasi-judicial and sovereign immunity. Finding that the Court of Appeals reached the correct...

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