Legal Opinion
Ga. Ports Auth. v. Lawyer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 1, 2018No. S17G1951PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Justice.
**667We granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in this case to reconsider Hines v. Georgia Ports Authority, 278 Ga. 631, 604 S.E.2d 189 (2004), and more specifically, its holding that the Georgia Ports Authority is not an "arm of the state" and has, therefore, no sovereign immunity from a lawsuit in a state court to recover damages under federal maritime law for the tort of a Ports Authority employee. There are several reasons to doubt the soundness of Hines. Most significantly, our decision in Hines was based on an undeveloped factual record, and now having reexamined…
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