(July 23, 2019, 9:35 AM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a suit brought by a firefighter who was injured in an accident at a firefighting base camp, the California Supreme Court found that a statute limiting the tort liability of public entities serves as an affirmative defense and not a jurisdictional bar. In reversing an appeals court’s decision on July 15, the state high court remanded for a ruling on whether the affirmative defense was adequately pleaded (Rebecca Megan Quigley v. Garden Valley Fire Protection District, et al., No. S242250, Calif. Sup., 2019 Cal. LEXIS 5216)....