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The Court of Appeals of Georgia is one of the busiest state appellate courts in the nation. In 2019, the court disposed of 2,445 direct appeals [11] and 836 applications, [12] or requests to file direct appeals. The 1996 statute that increased the number of judges to ten also changed the process by which cases would be decided in the event of a ...
Justices Stephen Dillard, Ken Hodges, Benjamin Land, Amanda Mercier, Brian Rickman, and Jeffrey Watkins were unopposed for re-election. Since 1896, justices on the Supreme Court and judges on the Court of Appeals have been directly elected in statewide elections. Judicial elections were made non-partisan in 1983. Elections for nonpartisan state ...
Seven seats on the Georgia Court of Appeals were up for election on May 21, with Jeffrey A Watkins, Ken Hodges, Ben Land, Stephen Dillard, Brian Rickman, and Amanda Mercier all won re-election. The remaining open seat was contested between lawyer Jeff Land and Cobb County Magistrate Judge Tabitha Ponder.
A Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators in the 2020 election.
The appeals court in Atlanta, in a 2-1 ruling, found that a romantic relationship between Willis and a former top deputy, Nathan Wade, created "a si Georgia appeals court disqualifies prosecutor ...
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney ...
Christian Aaron Coomer (born October 31, 1974) [4] is an American lawyer who served as a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals from 2018 to 2023. In August 2023, Coomer was removed from office by the Georgia Supreme Court for "patterns of bad faith behavior".
On Dec. 4, Trump asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to order the dismissal of his election racketeering case in the Peach State, arguing the charges are unconstitutional as he prepares to return ...