Dawkins v. Baltimore City Police Department

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• holding that, as a general rule, trial court orders rejecting immunity defenses do not present extraordinary circumstances making them unreviewable on appeal, and hence are not appealable under the collateral order doctrine
• holding that, “[a]s a general rule, interlocutory trial court orders rejecting defenses of common law sovereign immunity, governmental immunity, public official immunity, statutory immunity, or any other type of immunity, are not appealable under the Maryland collateral order doctrine”
• stating that denial of any immunity asserted by government official other than “Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, or judges” is not appealable under Maryland’s collateral order doctrine
• discussing Bunting and holding that interlocutory trial court orders rejecting defenses of common law sovereign immunity, governmental immunity, public official immunity, statutory immunity, or any other type of immunity, generally do not come within the collateral order doctrine
• \[T]he claimed right of immunity from trial itself does not suffice to satisfy the 'unreviewability' requirement[.]\ (citation omitted)
• interlocutory order denying motion to dismiss that was based on claims of sovereign immunity and public official immunity not appeal-able

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