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FULTON COUNTY v. CITY OF ATLANTA

S16A0689.

791 S.E.2d 821 (2016)

FULTON COUNTY v. CITY OF ATLANTA.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 3, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerolyn Webb Ferrari , Marvin Joel Harkins , Cheryl Melissa Ann Ringer , Kaye Woodard Burwell , Assistant County Attorney, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker , County Attorney, Office of the Fulton County Attorney, 141 Pryor Street, S.W., Suite 4038, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr. , Assistant County Attorney, Kenneth Paul Robin , Jarrard & Davis, LLP 105 Pilgrim Village Drive, Suite 200, Cumming, Georgia 30040, for Appellant.

Richard H. Sinkfield , Phillip S. McKinney , Rogers & Hardin LLP, 2700 International Tower, 229 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Amicus Appellant.

Britt Cagle Grant , Samuel S. Olens , Attorney General, Sarah Hawkins Warren , Deputy Solicitor-General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Neutral Amicus.

Emmet J. Bondurant, II , David Gregory Hill Brackett , Robert Lawrence Ashe, III , Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr. , Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, 3900 One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, Joseph Daniel Young , Joseph D. Young, P.C., 1266 West Paces Ferry Road, #167, Atlanta, Georgia 30327-2306, for Appellee.

In 2015, the City of Atlanta proposed to annex property in unincorporated Fulton County that the City recently had acquired, but the County objected to the proposed annexation. The property in question is a part of the Fulton County Industrial District, and the County pointed the City to a local constitutional amendment, which...

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