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Though the county unit system had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, and so in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.
Other courts, including county recorder's courts, civil courts and other agencies in existence on June 30, 1983, may continue with the same jurisdiction until otherwise provided by law. [12] Each county in Georgia has at least one superior court, magistrate court, probate court, and where needed a state court and a juvenile court; in the ...
Georgia Superior Courts (49 judicial circuits) [3] 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 ...
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]
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 US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and ...
When county seats have been moved, a new courthouse was typically constructed. Courthouses in Georgia have also been destroyed by disasters including fire, tornadoes, war, and arson. The most recent county courthouse to suffer a disaster was the burning of Hancock County, Georgia's courthouse in August 2014.
Shifting county lines changing the center of population; A few county seats have regained their position of county seat after losing it: Morgan was the county seat of Calhoun County from 1856 to 1923; it was re-designated the county seat in 1929; Stark(s)ville was the county seat of Lee County from 1832 to 1854, and then again from 1856 to 1872