Georgia Court Rules

Ga. Sup. Ct. R. 61 (2026)

Stay Of Remittitur

✓ 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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Any party desiring to have the remittitur stayed in this Court in order to appeal to, or seek a writ of certiorari in, the Supreme Court of the United States shall file in this Court a motion to stay the remittitur with a concise statement of the issues to be raised on appeal or in the petition for certiorari. Such motion shall be filed at the time of filing a motion for reconsideration or, if no motion for reconsideration is filed, within the time allowed for filing of one. See Rule 27.

A stay of remittitur will not be granted by this Court from the denial of a petition for certiorari.

A motion to stay the remittitur that is filed after the remittitur has been transmitted to the court from which the case was received shall not be accepted for filing.