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LATHROP v. DEAL

S17A0196.

801 S.E.2d 867 (2017)

LATHROP et al. v. DEAL et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 19, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Franklin Samuel , Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C., Atlanta, GA, Alexa Kolbi-Molinas , Susan Talcott Camp , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Appellants.

Dennis R. Dunn , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Victoria Cuneo Powell , Assistant Solicitor-General, Sarah Hawkins Warren , Solicitor-General, Department of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Appellees.

Ronan Patrick Doherty , Manoj Sam Varghese , Michael Rosen Baumrind , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Appellant.

Simply put, the constitutional doctrine of sovereign immunity forbids our courts to entertain a lawsuit against the State without its consent. In Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources v. Center for a Sustainable Coast, 294 Ga. 593, 602, 755 S.E.2d 184

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