Legal Opinion
Town of Smyrna, Tennessee v. Municipal Gas Authority of GA
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 19, 2013No. 12-5476PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERNICE B. DONALD, Circuit Judge.
This case is before us on interlocutory appeal of the district court’s denial of sovereign immunity to the appellant Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia (the “Gas Authority”). The heart of the dispute is the Gas Authority’s proposed interpretation of Kyle v. Georgia Lottery Corporation, 290 Ga. 87, 718 S.E.2d 801, 802-04 (2011): that any entity referred to as a state “instrumentality” in a Georgia statute is entitled to Georgia state-law sovereign immunity. The Gas Authority’s suggested interpretation, however, requires quite a stretch of the…
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