Layer v. Barrow County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \a suit against a county officer in her official capacity is a suit against the county itself\
• “[A] suit against a county officer in her official capacity is a suit against the county itself.” (emphasis omitted)
• sovereign immunity will bar a lawsuit for damages upon quasi-contractual theories of liability in the absence of a written contract
• sovereign immunity will bar a lawsuit for damages upon quasi-contractual theories of liability in the absence of a written contract
• “sovereign immunity has been waived for ‘action[s] ex contractu for the breach of any written contract’”
• sovereign immunity will bar a lawsuit for damages upon quasi-contractual theories of liability in the absence of a written contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).