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.