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The OCGA contains both the official statutes as well as annotations. The annotations explain and expound upon the statutes and contain "summaries of state attorney general's opinions, advisory opinions by the State Bar of Georgia, summaries of important court rulings, excerpts of law review articles, legislative histories[,] and repeals". [2]
Unpublished" federal appellate decisions are published in the Federal Appendix. From 2000 to 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit had the highest rate of non-publication (92%), and more than 85% of the decisions in the 3rd Circuit, 5th Circuit, 9th Circuit, and 11th Circuit went unpublished. [6]
These districts were originally part of the Fifth Circuit, but were split off to form the Eleventh Circuit on October 1, 1981. [1] For this reason, Fifth Circuit decisions from before this split are considered binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit. [2] [3] The court is based at the Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building in Atlanta ...
The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit appeared to clear the way for the release of the report as early as next week.
The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals needs to clarify its ruling that Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence for a 1997 murder must be set aside in light ...
Third, and most importantly, that decision is unpublished, which means that it has no precedential value in the Eleventh Circuit. In other words, if the supposed distinction between Eleventh and Tenth Circuit law depends on the Shivers case, then in fact no such distinction exists, since unpublished opinions are not binding.
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On 17 October 2014, the 11th Circuit reversed and remanded to the lower court for reconsideration in light of its opinion. [8] The 11th Circuit reversed the grant of attorney's fees, and closely examined the lower court's 300-plus page fair use decision in their own 129-page decision, affirming and reversing various portions of the District ...