...Moreover, when a superior court judge enters an order on a petition for writ of mandamus, the appeal should generally be directed to the Court of Appeals because, as explained in Division 2, it has appellate jurisdiction over most cases involving extraordinary remedies. See OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (4). 14 Ga....

...h a sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed,” and all equity cases and cases involving extraordinary remedies related to cases in which a sentence of death was or could be imposed. Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. III; OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (2), (4).9 9 We also have jurisdiction to answer questions of law from any state appellate court or any federal district or appellate court and over cases from the Court of Appeals in certain situations....

...Given that this Court has appellate jurisdiction over only a small subset of all civil cases, we cannot presume that the case he seeks to file would invoke this Court’s appellate jurisdiction. See Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VI, Pars. II and III; OCGA § 15-3-3.1....

...See Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. III; OCGA § 9-6-1 et seq. However, the Act placed appellate jurisdiction over most cases involving extraordinary remedies in the Court of Appeals beginning in 2017. Ga. L. 2016, pp. 885-886, § 3-1; OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (4)....

...r as a direct appeal under Case No. S22A1099. 12 sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed and those cases concerning the execution of a sentence of death[,]” which are reserved to this Court. OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (2) (enacted by Ga....

...See OCGA § 17-10-40 (a) (providing the procedure for execution orders). Therefore, this case is both a case “concerning proceedings in which a sentence of death was imposed” and a case “concerning the execution of a sentence of death.” OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (2). See Brock, 303 Ga. at 730-31 (1) (considering identical exception language in OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (4) to hold that “a mandamus petition brought by a prisoner convicted of murder claiming a right to free records of his murder case for the purpose of challenging that conviction is a case ‘concerning (the) proceedings’ in w...

...See City of Waycross, 300 Ga. at 111 (1) (“[T]he trial court must make a judgment call regarding the equities presented, and the court is vested with broad discretion in making that decision.” (citation and punctuation omitted)). Jurisdiction is properly in this Court under OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (2) because equitable principles were at the core of the trial court’s determination as to whether to grant the Appellees’ motion for an interlocutory injunction, that interlocutory injunction is the primary issue on appeal, a...

...See generally City of Decatur v. DeKalb County, 284 Ga. 434, 435-437 (668 SE2d 247) (2008). Accordingly, as there is no other basis for the exercise of this Court’s jurisdiction over this appeal, see Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. II-III; OCGA § 15-3-3.1, it is transferred to the Court of Appeals....

...Hardman, 303 Ga. 729, 729 (814 SE2d 736) (2018) (“We conclude that this appeal arises from an extraordinary remedies case ‘concerning proceedings in which a sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed,’ and thus we have jurisdiction under OCGA § 15-3-3.1 (a) (4).”); Henderson v....