Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice v. Cummings

Phipps, Judge.

We granted the interlocutory appeal application of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) from an order of the superior court denying its motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Carlise Cummings against it and others. Cummings seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision. The DJJ contends that Cummings’s complaint against it should have been dismissed on jurisdictional grounds, because Cummings failed to provide it with ante litem notice within 12 months of the date of the collision as required by the Georgia Tort Claims Act (GTCA). We…