BOARD OF COM'RS OF GLYNN COUNTY v. Johnson

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• complaint clearly showed that members of board of commissioners were sued only in their official capacities
• “a personal injury for purposes of inverse condemnation does not constitute personal property that can be taken”
• county commissioners are entitled to sovereign immunity in suits against them in their official capacities
• “Because any recovery of damages would be paid out of the public purse, county employees sued in their official capacities are entitled to invoke the protection afforded by sovereign immunity.”
• “[a]s provided in Georgia’s Constitution, sovereign immunity extends to the counties, and a county’s sovereign immunity can only be waived by an Act of the General Assembly which specifically provides that 24 sovereign immunity is thereby waived and the extent of such waiver”

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