"Immunity provisions" refers to legal rules or protections that can shield someone from being held accountable or punished for certain actions or offenses. It allows individuals to avoid legal consequences or to have their liability reduced or eliminated altogether.
Full definition
O.C.G.A. § 16-11-135 is just one of many
immunity provisions under Georgia law, and those with a possible negligence claim should always consider finding counsel experienced in the legal nuances of all the possible claims they may have.
The Board also asserted that it is immune from a libel action under
immunity provisions in the Illinois State Immunity Act, 110 ILCS 305.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has used the leniency and
immunity provisions with some success to secure convictions, particularly in relation to cartel offences.
It found that the Code is paramount over
statutory immunity provisions, that deliberative secrecy was irrelevant when the complainant only sought to rely on documents that were already disclosed, and that the rule of collateral attack was restricted to situations where a decision was sought to be overturned as opposed to having its facts re-litigated (¶ ¶ 64 - 66).
Common in other contexts:
Immunity provisions exist in several Minnesota statutes to protect other types of mandated reports, such as:
Determine who is liable, what legal theory applies, how to structure your case, how to maximize damages, and defenses, including an expansive list
of immunity provisions.
Outlier: Unlike most other states with reporting requirements, Minnesota does not have
an immunity provision for veterinarians when reporting to law enforcement or humane officers.
The Tribunal went on to reject the College's arguments that the Registration Committee's decision was protected by a statutory
immunity provision, deliberative secrecy, or the rule against collateral attack.
The effect of the statutory
immunity provisions is that those in the boardroom are increasingly vulnerable to others rightly or wrongly blowing the whistle.
While I still think I'm right as a conceptual matter that impossibility preemption generally turns on conduct rather than liability, the fact that it'd render
the immunity provision a nullity is a problem since the question is ultimately one of statutory interpretation.