Legal Opinion
SPANN v. DAVIS
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 23, 2021No. S20G1536PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
312 Ga. 843
FINAL COPY S20G1536. SPANN v. DAVIS et al. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Gai Spann filed suit against Rashida Davis and Kyra Dixon, administrators of the City of Atlanta Municipal Court (“the Clerks”), alleging that she was wrongfully arrested and detained as a result of the Clerks’ failure to withdraw a failure-to-appear warrant after it had been cancelled by the municipal court. The Clerks raised sovereign immunity and official immunity as defenses in a motion to dismiss,1 but the trial court instead sua sponte raised and granted the motion based on quasi-judicial immunity, with no prior…
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