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O.C.G.A. § 9-9-15 (2019)

Judgment on award

✓ 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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Statute text

(a) Upon confirmation of the award by the court, judgment shall be entered in the same manner as provided by Chapter 11 of this title and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.

(b) The judgment roll shall consist of the following:

(1) The agreement and each written extension of time within which to make the award;

(2) The award;

(3) A copy of the order confirming, modifying, or correcting the award; and

(4) A copy of the judgment.

History

(Code 1933, § 7-316, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2270, § 1; Code 1981, § 9-9-95; Code 1981, § 9-9-15, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1988, p. 903, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes. - In light of the similarity of the provisions, decisions under former Code Section 9-9-95 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Separate order and judgment not required. - Although O.C.G.A. § 9-9-15 of the Georgia Arbitration Code contemplates entry of a judgment separate from the order confirming the award, the statute does not require that the order and the judgment be entered on separate documents. McFarland v. Roberts, 335 Ga. App. 40, 778 S.E.2d 349 (2015), cert. denied, No. S16C0522, 2016 Ga. LEXIS 229 (Ga. 2016).

Approval of arbitration award not yet issued. - Husband's application to vacate an arbitration award under O.C.G.A. § 9-9-13 should have been dismissed rather than denied since the trial court's divorce decree in which it approved the arbitration award was final on the date that it issued the decree even though the arbitration award had, in fact, not been issued on that date. Since, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-9-15 the order confirming the arbitration award became the judgment of the trial court on the date that the trial court issued its divorce decree, all matters in litigation in the action were final on that date, including those submitted for arbitration, and the later purported arbitration award was of no effect. Ciraldo v. Ciraldo, 280 Ga. 602, 631 S.E.2d 640 (2006).

Judgment entered on arbitration award not in conformity therewith. - As a trial court's confirmation of an arbitration award in favor of law clerks resulted in an award of back pay to the clerks that was to be implemented from the date of the confirmation order, the award was not in conformity with the arbitration award, which required implementation from the date of the award. Fulton County v. Lord, 323 Ga. App. 384, 746 S.E.2d 188 (2013).

Postjudgment interest awarded. - Trial court properly awarded postjudgment interest after the court confirmed an arbitration award; once confirmed, the arbitration was treated like all other judgments, and under O.C.G.A. § 7-4-12(a), all judgments bore annual interest on the principal amount recovered. Airtab, Inc. v. Limbach Co., LLC, 295 Ga. App. 720, 673 S.E.2d 69 (2009).

Cited in Thacker Constr. Co. v. A Betterway Rent-A-Car, Inc., 186 Ga. App. 660, 368 S.E.2d 178 (1988)(decided under former § 9-9-95); Barge v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 245 Ga. App. 112, 535 S.E.2d 837 (2000), overruled on other grounds, Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Jones, 333 Ga. App. 184, 775 S.E.2d 714, 2015 Ga. App. LEXIS 475 (2015).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 21 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1997–2021 · leading case: Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Jones Et Al., 775 S.E.2d 714 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015).
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Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Jones Et Al., 775 S.E.2d 714 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 16× “112, 117 ( 535 SE2d 837 ) (2000); OCGA § 9-9-15 (b). We first consider whether the FAA rule preempts the Georgia rule.”
Barge v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins., 535 S.E.2d 837 (Ga. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 9-9-15 provides: (a) Upon confirmation of the award by the court, judgment shall be entered in the same manner as provided by Chapter 11 of this title and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Yates v. Cacv of Colorado, LLC, 693 S.E.2d 629 (Ga. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 9-9-15. Decided April 6, 2010. Cynthia Yates, pro se.”
Charles Brown, L.L.P. v. Lanier Worldwide, Inc., 124 S.W.3d 883 (Tex. App. 2004). “3d at 270 ; see also Ga.Code Ann. § 9-9-15 (judgment on arbitration award shall be enforced as any other judgment).”
Brown v. Premiere Designs, Inc., 597 S.E.2d 466 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “5 See OCGA § 9-9-15. 6 (Footnote omitted.) Greene v.”
Fulton Cnty. v. Lord, 746 S.E.2d 188 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “” 28 OCGA § 9-9-15 (a) provides: “Upon confirmation of the award by the court, judgment shall be entered in the same manner as provided by Chapter 11 of this title and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Airtab, Inc. v. Limbach Co., LLC, 673 S.E.2d 69 (Ga. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “11 OCGA § 9-9-15 (a). 12 OCGA § 7-4-12 (a). 13 See OCGA § 7-4-12 (b) (“If the judgment is rendered on a written contract or obligation providing for interest at a specified rate, the judgment shall bear interest at the rate specified in the contract or obligation.”
Mcfarland v. Roberts Et Al., 778 S.E.2d 349 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 2× “184, 185 (1) ( 775 SE2d 714 ) (2015), however, we determined that, “although OCGA § 9-9-15 of the Georgia Arbitration Code (GAC) contemplates entry of a judgment separate from the order confirming the award, it does not require that the order and the judgment be entered on…”
Ciraldo v. Ciraldo, 631 S.E.2d 640 (Ga. 2006). · cites it 4× “But this argument ignores OCGA § 9-9-15, which states that when a trial court issues an order confirming an arbitration award, the award becomes a judgment of the court.”
LecStar Telecom, Inc. v. Grenfell, 616 S.E.2d 482 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “” OCGA § 9-9-15 (a). The Code section providing for the correction of misnomers provides in pertinent part that “[a]ll misnomers .”
Alessi v. Cornerstone Assocs., Inc., 765 S.E.2d 630 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 9-9-15 (a) (“Upon confirmation of the award by the court, judgment shall be entered in the same manner as provided by [the Civil Practice Act] and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Kuhl v. Shepard, 487 S.E.2d 68 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 9-9-15. Because there was no judgment or judgment date, it was error to base the calculation of interest on July 12, 1995, the date of the arbitrator’s report.”
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