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In West Virginia, magistrate courts are non-lawyer small claims and petty crime courts, established to replace the justice of the peace system in 1976. There are at least two magistrates in every county, and ten in the largest county, Kanawha . [ 1 ]
In Georgia, constables are court officers whose powers and duties are: To attend regularly all sessions of magistrate court; to pay promptly over money collected by them to the magistrate court; to execute and return all warrants, summonses, executions, and other processes directed to them by the magistrate court; and to perform such other ...
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 ...
State courts of West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia [1] Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia (Effective July 1, 2022) [2] West Virginia Circuit Courts (31 judicial circuits) [1] West Virginia Family Courts [1] West Virginia Magistrate Courts [1] West Virginia Municipal Courts [1] Federal courts located in West ...
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In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
In a unanimous decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Georgia Republican Party to reinstate seven last-minute rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board ahead of ...
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 ...