Doud v. Com.

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• explaining that the Virginia Tort Claims Act does not waive a sheriff's sovereign immunity
• “In the VTCA, the Commonwealth has waived its sovereign immunity for tort claims in the circumstances to which the statute applies, but the waiver is a limited one and the VTCA, being an enactment in derogation of the common law, is strictly construed.”

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