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The second measure, HB 909, amends the existing First Offenders Act, allowing court records to be sealed at sentencing rather than upon completion of their sentence.Proponents of the bill say it ...
Pursuant to common law tradition, the courts of Georgia have developed a large body of case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Georgia Court of Appeals. The official reporter for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals are the Georgia Reports and Georgia Appeals Reports, respectively. [5] Georgia Cases (a ...
The highest judiciary power in Georgia is the Supreme Court, which is composed of nine justices. [11] The state also has a Court of Appeals made of 15 judges. [ 11 ] Georgia is divided into 49 judicial circuits, each of which has a Superior Court consisting of local citizens numbering between two and 19 members depending on the circuit population.
A bill that would allow ballots cast in an election to be uploaded to the Georgia Secretary of State’s website for the public to access has passed through the Senate Ethics committee with a 4-2 ...
Overview: A bill that purports to address data privacy for Georgia residents passed in the senate with a contentious 37-15 vote. The bill outlines guidelines and consumer protections for online ...
Georgia State-wide Business Court [4] Georgia State Courts [5] Georgia Magistrate Courts [6] Georgia Juvenile Courts [7] Georgia Probate Courts [8] Georgia Municipal Courts [9] Federal courts located in Georgia. United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (headquartered in Atlanta, having jurisdiction over the United States District ...
The four-bill package includes legislation increasing Georgia’s child-tax credit from $3,000 to $4,000, doubling the state’s homestead tax exemption from $2,000 to $4,000, and removing the cap ...
Instead, the bill would require some university employees to report possible felonies to law enforcement. The bill was introduced by Representative Earl Ehrhart (R- Powder Springs ) on January 11, 2017, [ 3 ] and was passed by the House of Representatives on March 1, 2017, in a 115-55 vote. [ 4 ]