Rahmaan v. DeKalb County

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• The county’s waiver of sovereign immunity in a police pursuit case pursuant to OCGA § 40-6-6 was based on an insurance policy.
• “We review the trial court’s grant of summary judgment de novo to determine whether the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, demonstrates a genuine issue of material fact.” (citation and punctuation omitted.
• For purposes of summary judgment, plaintiff’s version of events, which differed from that of the pursuing officer, constituted evidence from which a jury could conclude the officer acted with reckless disregard of law enforcement procedures in his decision to continue the pursuit.
• For purposes of summary judgment, plaintiff’s version of events, which differed from that of the pursuing officer, constituted evidence from which a jury could conclude the officer acted with reckless disregard of law enforcement procedures in his decision to continue the pursuit.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).