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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.

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  1. Consumer Credit Research Found. v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga.

    347 Ga. App. 188 (Ga. Ct. App. 2018)

    The Supreme Court of Georgia granted certiorari, disapproved of this Court’s interpretation of Bowers , and reversed the judgment of this Court. Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Foundation , 303 Ga. 828, 815 S.E.2d 841 (2018). The Supreme Court held that OCGA § 50-18-72 (a) of the Act does not bar a state agency from publicly releasing records, unless the specific exemption listed in the statute that covers the records at issue expressly prohibits disclosure.

  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."