McCobb v. Clayton County

How courts have described this case

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

• reaching the substantive merits of a judgment on the pleadings premised on an insurance policy, where it was “undisputed that the county purchased liability insurance, and the policy is in the record”
• “Under Georgia law, sovereign immunity is an immunity from suit, rather than a mere defense to liability, and, therefore, whether a governmental defendant has waived its sovereign immunity is a threshold issue.”
• “Under Georgia law, sovereign immunity is an immunity from suit, rather than a mere defense to liability, and, therefore, whether a governmental defendant has waived its sovereign immunity is a threshold issue.”
• “As provided in Georgia’s constitution, sovereign immunity extends to the counties[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).