Echols v. DeKalb County

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I respectfully dissent based upon the authority contained in Goolsby v. Regents of the Univ. System of Ga., 141 Ga. App. 605, 609 (234 SE2d 165) (1977), "The doctrine of sovereign immunity is not a bar to the enforcement of constitutional rights” (1st and 14th Amendments free speech rights), and C. F. I. Const. Co. v. Bd. of Regents, 145 Ga. App. 471, 475 (243 SE2d 700) (1978), "Such a right is that of eminent domain” (5th Amendment U. S. constitutional right as deprivation of property and Art. I, Sec. Ill, Par. I of 1976 Ga. Constitution; Code Ann. § 2-301). These rights would be an empty…