A decision by the Georgia Supreme Court was a win for a plaintiff who claims she was falsely arrested—and also for those who guard the state treasury.
That odd pairing of interests fits with the bizarre facts underlying the case. They concern a woman who sued campus police at Agnes Scott College in Decatur after she was arrested on claims that she assaulted a student there. The June 16 opinion by a unanimous Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a divided Court of Appeals that gave the officers at the private women’s college the same sort of immunity afforded state police officers.
