Porr v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This case is another in which the Department of State Police, its then Commissioner (Commissioner), and the Department of General Services and its Secretary (Secretary) have entered preliminary objections raising, inter alia, the defenses of sovereign immunity (as to the departments) and absolute immunity (as to the Commissioner and Secretary) to a complaint alleging defendants’ liability for an automobile accident involving a vehicle driven by one of the plaintiffs and another driven by a state police trooper.

This case arises out of the same facts as Kenno v.…