Is the state government reopening the economy too early? Is it safe? Can we now sue the Governor? | The Legalist

Is the state government reopening the economy too early? Is it safe? Can we now sue the Governor? | The Legalist

Hey this is Lee Davis attorney and owner of Lee Davis Law in Atlanta Georgia and you may have seen some of my other videos which are very well produced and very professionally done by the folks that I normally hire to do these things but today I've just got a couple of thoughts that I wanted to share with everybody. They're more topical because of the Covid 19 crisis and so this is going to be a little bit more informal and it's just going to be me kind of sharing my thoughts on some different issues. so yesterday just to put this video kind of in context with where we are during the Covid 19 crisis. This is April the 23rd and on April the 20th The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp announced that Georgia was going to start reopening certain businesses after being shut down for a while because of the Covid 19 crisis. So this question or this this question that I'm going to talk about today is directly relevant to the governor's decision to reopen the state. You might know it's a very controversial decision here in Georgia. I think it's getting a lot of national attention because President Trump even weighed in with it and said that he doesn't agree with the decision. He strongly disagrees I think was it was his words and so it's kind of topical and the question that I received from someone was can we sue the governor if his decision ends up turning out badly? And the short answer to that is no. Now I'm not going to just end it there I'm going to explain why it's know basically, we can't sue the governor or a lot of government officials because of a concept called sovereign immunity. sovereign immunity is a legal concept that has its roots all the way back to England when the king was the be-all and end-all of all laws and application of laws and everything else and sovereign immunity basically in its most basic form is you can't sue the king the king is the #TheLegalist #BrianKemp #Georgia #Covid19 #LeeDavisLaw