Supreme Court Refuses to Review 60-Day Issue
The Supreme Court of Georgia voted 4-3 to deny a petition for certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision establishing that probate judges may wait indefinitely for a “notification” that a background check has been conducted before issuing a GFL. Justices Sears, Benham and Hines voted to grant certiorari. The Court of Appeals decision now stands as the law in Georgia. A copy of the denial of certiorari can be viewed here:
http://www.georgiacarry.com/moore/Denial of Cert.pdf
September 25th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
So what does this mean, exactly? That the probate courts can indefinitely delay issuing a GFL if they say the delay is caused by “background checks?” If that’s the case, what’s stopping a court from bogging down processing the background checks and effectively ceasing GFL issues in that county?
October 16th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I don’t understand the meaning of this either. Someone who is a lawyer, please translate for those of us who aren’t.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Well it meant that the only other option was to try to get the law changed. It was changed by HB89 (passed in 2008) so basically this case no longer even matters.