Colon v. Fulton County

How courts have described this case

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• finding waiver of sovereign immunity where, by the enactment of the whistleblower statute at OCGA § 45-1-4, the legislature specifically created a right of action, and entitlement to damages, against a governmental entity that would have otherwise been barred by sovereign immunity
• finding waiver of sovereign immunity where, by the enactment of the whistleblower statute at OCGA § 45-1-4, the legislature specifically created a right of action, and entitlement to damages, against a governmental entity that would have otherwise been barred by sovereign immunity
• \ OCGA § 45-1-4 sets forth a specific waiver of the County's sovereign immunity and the extent of such waiver\
• \We ... presume that when enacting a statute the General Assembly meant what it said and said what it meant.\
• “[I]n order for the [Georgia whistleblower statute, OCGA § 45-1-4] to have any meaning at all here, it can only be interpreted as creating a waiver of sovereign immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rivera v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 110×
• Georgia Department of Corrections v. Couch
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 65×
• West v. City of Albany
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 33×
• Harris v. Mahone
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-01· cited 26×
• City of Union Point v. Greene Cnty.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 16×
• CITY OF UNION POINT v. GREENE COUNTY (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 15×
• Department of Transportation v. Mixon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 15×
• Tuttle v. Board of Regents of the University System
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-19· cited 9×
• Tdga, LLC. v. Cbira, LLC
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 8×
• TRICOLI v. WATTS Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-30· cited 7×
• Murray-Obertein v. Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-23· cited 7×
• State of Georgia v. Sun States Insurance Group, Inc.; Regulatory Technologies, Inc. v. State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 6×
• CROSBY Et Al. v. JOHNSON Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 6×
• One Sixty Over Ninety, LLC v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-27· cited 6×
• STATE of Georgia Et Al. v. INTERNATIONAL INDEMNITY COMPANY Et Al. Regulatory Technologies, Inc. v. State of Georgia.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-31· cited 4×
• FUCIARELLI v. McKINNEY Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 3×
• GRAVITT Et Al. v. OLENS
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 1×
• Georgia Lottery Corporation v. Sonalben Patel
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-12-04
• Sherman Maine v. Georgia Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Sheri Mimbs v. Henry County Schools
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-04-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Six Flags Over Georgia II, L.P. v. Kull
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 79×
• Slakman v. Continental Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 78×
• State v. Fielden
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 73×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-22· cited 40×
• Sawnee Electrical Membership Corp. v. Georgia Department of Revenue
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 33×
• Williamson v. Department of Human Resources
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-04· cited 25×
• Forrester v. Georgia Department of Human Services
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-24· cited 23×
• City of Atlanta v. Barnes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 22×
• Chatman v. Findley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 19×
• Fulton County v. Colon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 14×
• City of Atlanta v. Gilmere
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-04· cited 13×