Guy v. Housing Authority of the City of Augusta

Summary

The court vacated the judgment granting sovereign immunity to a city housing authority and remanded for analysis under the proper legal framework. It held that the constitutional provision granting immunity to the State and its departments and agencies does not govern municipalities or automatically extend immunity to municipal instrumentalities, and that the issue must instead be examined under the common law in effect in England on May 14, 1776. The court declined to decide whether this housing authority is immune because the lower courts had not performed that analysis and the issue was inadequately briefed.