Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Department Of Transportation v. Edward Kovalcik et al..

A15A2222 March 28, 2016 Affirmed

Automated case summary

What the court decided

The legal issue is whether the Georgia Department of Transportation's sovereign immunity applies to claims arising from a construction inspection of a state roadway. The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed that because the DOT inspected the State roadway itself, its inspection powers exception waived immunity for those specific claims.