Georgia Court Rules
Ga. Ct. App. R. 36 (2026)
Affirmance without Opinion, When Rendered
✓ current as of July 2026
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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Cases may be affirmed without opinion if:
(1) The evidence supports the judgment;
(2) No reversible error of law appears and an opinion would have no precedential value;
(3) The judgment of the court below adequately explains the decision; or
(4) The issues are controlled adversely to the appellant for the reasons and authority given in the appellee’s brief.
Rule 36 cases have no precedential value.