Georgia Court Rules

Ga. Sup. Ct. R. 41 (2026)

Petitions

✓ 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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(1) A petition for certiorari must comply with Rules 14–22. Any brief of facts and law prepared in connection with a petition for certiorari should be included as part of the petition and not filed as a separate document.

(2) A petition for certiorari must state, separately and distinctly, the question or questions presented by the case which, in the petitioner’s

view, meet the standard set out in Rule 40 for granting review. The question or questions should be set out under a separate heading at the beginning of the petition, before any table of contents, table of authorities, or introduction.

(3) Argument in a petition for certiorari should explain why, in the petitioner’s view, the question or questions presented by the case meet the standard set out in Rule 40 for granting review, not merely why the decision below was error.

(4) The petition for certiorari will be considered by the Court without oral argument.