· 9/17/2004
Friday-Spivey v. Collier
Citations
- 601 S.E.2d 591
- 268 Va. 384
- 2004 Va. LEXIS 134
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a fireman is not entitled to sovereign immunity when responding to a non-emergency, public service call
- holding that a fireman is not entitled to soveteign immunity when responding to a non-emergency, public service call
- determining that the facts of the case did not support the defendant’s classification of the situation as an “emergency”
- determining that the facts of the case did not support the defendant’s classification of the situation as an “emergency”
- noting the Supreme Court of Virginia’s “test for determining whether an individual working for an immune governmental entity, such as a county employee . . . , is entitled to the protection of sovereign immunity” (emphasis added)
- reversing a lower court’s finding that a county fire truck driver was entitled to sovereign immunity from negligence solely due to the employee’s failure to meet the James factor regarding discretion, and despite the parties’ agreement that the employee met the other three factors
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Judges: Agee
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