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Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Found.

815 S.E.2d 841 (Ga. 2018)
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Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Found.

2 Citing cases

  1. Gonzalez v. Miller

    907 S.E.2d 859 (Ga. 2024)

    The ORA thus imposes a duty upon "agencies" to produce or to provide access to public records upon a proper request. See OCGA § 50-18-71 (b) (1); Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Foundation, 303 Ga. 828, 830 (2), 815 S.E.2d 841 (2018) ("Government agencies therefore have a duty to disclose public records unless relieved of that duty by a specific exemption or court order.").Gonzalez has not challenged the form of the requests, the method by which they were submitted to her as the custodian of records for her office, or whether the records sought were public records under the ORA.

  2. Khalia, Inc. v. Rosebud

    353 Ga. App. 350 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019)   Cited 7 times
    Affirming award of $140,951.17 where contingency fee agreement would have generated a fee of $442,855.13 and hourly billing would have resulted in fees of $50,000, emphasizing that the trial court reduced the award from the amount sought by the plaintiff because it found that some of the fees evidenced by the plaintiff’s attorneys were not reasonable

    The surplusage canon has been adopted in Georgia. See Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Found. , 303 Ga. 828, 834, 815 S.E.2d 841, 846 (2018). "In the absence of words of limitation, words in a statute should be given their ordinary and everyday meaning."