Gillot v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

MEMORANDUM OPINION

AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., District Judge.

This case is before the Court on Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), was negligent in failing to adequately protect her from abduction while she was on a parking lot owned and maintained by WMATA. Defendant maintains it is immune from suit by virtue of sovereign immunity and that, if subject to suit, it breached no duty to Plaintiff. The Court holds that Defendant is immune from suit insofar as its police protection function is concerned…