Rafter v. Miller

By Judge Marjorie A. Taylor Arrington

This personal injury action arises from an automobile accident that occurred on December 17, 2011, when Phillip Miller allegedly rear-ended Leslie Marie Rafter. Defendant filed a plea in bar for sovereign immunity on grounds that he was driving a City of Chesapeake vehicle in which he was transporting two workforce inmates as part of his job as First Sargent for the Chesapeake’s Sheriff’s Department. The Court took evidence on the plea in bar at a hearing on September 18, 2013. For the reasons below, the Court overrules Defendant’s plea in bar for…