Rivera v. Washington

HINES, Presiding Justice.

This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in these cases to consider its decisions to dismiss the direct appeals that defendants filed from the trial courts’ denials of their motions to dismiss that were based on claims of quasi-judicial and sovereign immunity. Finding that the Court of Appeals reached the correct results in both cases, but did so under flawed analyses, we affirm its judgments.

Although these two cases arose separately, they pose a singular legal issue for this Court’s determination, and thus can be addressed in the same opinion. In Case…