CITY OF ATLANTA v. ATLANTA INDEPENDENT

S19A1203.

838 S.E.2d 834 (2020)

CITY OF ATLANTA et al. v. ATLANTA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 10, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmet J. Bondurant, II , David Gregory Hill Brackett , Robert Lawrence Ashe, III , BONDURANT, MIXSON & ELMORE, LLP, 3900 One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, Jeffrey Spencer Haymore , Dillard Sellers, LLC, 1776 Peachtree Street, Suite 322S, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Susan Marie Garrett , CITY OF ATLANTA LAW DEPARTMENT, 68 Mitchell Street, S.W., Suite 4100, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Nina Hickson , CITY OF ATLANTA LAW DEPARTMENT, 55 Trinity Avenue, SW, Suite 5000, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr. , HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP, One Atlantic Center, Suite 2000, 1201 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3453, Joseph Daniel Young , JOSEPH D. YOUNG, P.C., 1266 West Paces Ferry Road, #167, Atlanta, Georgia 30327-2306, for Appellant.

Richard H. Sinkfield , Michael L. Eber , Rachel Mary Bishop , Cameron Blaine Roberts , ROGERS & HARDIN LLP, 2700 International Tower, 229 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.


This dispute between the City of Atlanta ("the City") and the Atlanta Independent School System ("APS") involves the City's annexing property in Fulton County while expressly prohibiting the co-expansion of APS's territory. We granted the City's application for interlocutory appeal challenging the trial court's denial of its motion...

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