Blackston v. Georgia Department of Public Safety

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• state trooper’s allegedly negligent performance of a method of law enforcement (chasing a speeder) by doing so in a manner that deviated from departmental procedure fell within the exception to the waiver of sovereign immunity
• sovereign immunity applied to pursuit in which troopers followed suspect through stop signs and. red lights, and “in[to] an oncoming lane of traffic,” and which ended in the suspect’s head-on collision with another vehicle
• sovereign immunity applied to pursuit in which troopers followed suspect through stop signs and red lights, and “in[to] an oncoming lane of traffic,” and which ended in the suspect’s head-on collision with another vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).