Legal Opinion
Considine v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 1, 2015No. S14G1202PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Nahmias, Justice.
We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision affirming the dismissal of Cecily Considine’s lawsuit against the receivers appointed in her separate lawsuit against Michael Affatato on the ground that the receivers have official immunity. We conclude that this lawsuit against the receivers should instead have been dismissed on the ground that Considine failed to obtain leave from the trial court in her lawsuit against Affatato before filing a separate lawsuit against the receivers appointed in that case. We affirm the Court of Appeals’ judgment on this ground,…
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