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).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Strength v. Lovett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-14· cited 74×
• McCobb v. Clayton County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-11· cited 33×
• Porter v. MASSARELLI
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-24· cited 13×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-28· cited 11×
• Clayton County v. Segrest
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 2×
• Ray v. City of Griffin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-13· cited 2×
• Bobby Patterson v. Daniel Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Valerie Gilbert v. Michael Freeland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-09
• Danny Ray v. the City of Griffin, Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-13
• Cedric Johnson v. Joseph T. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-28
• DAVID TITSHAW v. WILL B. GEER
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-05-24

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cameron v. Lang
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-25· cited 276×
• Phillips v. Hanse
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 30×
• Lang v. Becham
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-08· cited 12×
• Georgia Department of Public Safety v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-27· cited 12×
• Department of Public Safety v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-14· cited 4×