Gilbert v. Richardson

Blackburn, Judge.

In Gilbert v. Richardson, 211 Ga. App. 795 (440 SE2d 684) (1994), we affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants on the grounds that they were immune to suit under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and affirmed in part and reversed in part our decision in Gilbert v. Richardson, 264 Ga. 744 (452 SE2d 476) (1994).

Prior to the 1991 amendment, Art. I, Sec. II, Par. IX of the 1983 Constitution provided for a waiver of sovereign immunity for any claim against “the state or any of its departments and agencies” to the…