O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-15-9 (2019)

Representation of state in United States Supreme Court and beyond state limits

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The Attorney General shall represent the state in all actions before the Supreme Court of the United States and perform all other services required of him by law beyond the limits of the state without extra compensation.

History

(Ga. L. 1919, p. 134, § 2; Code 1933, § 40-1606.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note, ‘‘Perdue v. Baker: Who Has the Ultimate Power over Litigation on Behalf of the State of Geor-

gia - the Governor or the Attorney General?,’’ see 21 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 751 (2005).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Litigation over legislative reapportionment. - As neither the Governor nor the Attorney General of Georgia had the exclusive power to decide the state’s interest in litigation, the trial court properly

refused the Governor’s request to compel the Attorney General to dismiss an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of Georgia in a case involving legislative reapportionment under the Voting Rights

PUBLIC OFFICERS & EMPLOYEES

Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Perdue v. Baker, 277 Ga. 1, 586 S.E.2d 606 (2003). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 7 Am. Jur. 2d, Attorney General, §§ 4, 5.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2003–2003 · leading case: Perdue v. Baker, 586 S.E.2d 606 (Ga. 2003).
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