Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nobel L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs. PC, for Hines and others. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, Mary K. Moss, Thomas Mahoney Jr., Thomas J. Mahoney III Ranitz, Mahoney, Mahoney & Moss PC, Savannah, for the Georgia Ports Authority and others. Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Marc G. Marling, David F. Sipple, Robert S. Glenn Jr., Colin A. B. McRae Hunter MacLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Gordon D. Schreck Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee PA, Charleston, SC, and Stephen H. Vengrow Cichanowich, Callan, Keane, Venegrow & Texto, New York, NY, for Rickmers and others. Amicus appellant: John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta, in S03G1848.
for defendant:
Case Number: S03G1813; S03G1821; S03G1820; S03G1848
The Georgia Ports Authority is not a state arm entitled to immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution with regard to the plaintiffs' federal maritime torts c