Legal Opinion
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF LOWNDES COUNTY v. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VALDOSTA
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 28, 2020No. S20G0472PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
309 Ga. 899
FINAL COPY S20G0472. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF LOWNDES COUNTY v. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VALDOSTA et al. PETERSON, Justice. The Georgia Constitution allows only the General Assembly to waive the State’s sovereign immunity. We have repeatedly refused invitations to invent exceptions to that rule. But that rule requires waiver only for claims that sovereign immunity actually bars. And, as we have repeatedly explained, sovereign immunity has never barred most individual-capacity claims against state employees and officials for prospective injunctive and declaratory relief…
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