RAFFENSPERGER v. JACKSON

S23A0017 S23X0018.

888 S.E.2d 483 (2023)

RAFFENSPERGER v. JACKSON et al. Jackson et al. v. Raffensperger.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 31, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Warren Bergethon , Deputy Solicitor-General, Maximillian James Changus , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote , Deputy Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Stephen John Petrany , Solicitor-General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Melissa Angeleah Tracy , Jarrard & Davis, LLP, 222 Webb Street, Cumming, Georgia 30040, for Appellant in S23A0017.

Yasha Heidari , Heidari Power Law Group, LLC, 2997 Cobb Parkway, #724615, Atlanta, Georgia 31139, Renee D. Flaherty , Institute for Justice, 901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900, Arlington, Virginia 22203, Jaimie Cavanaugh , Institute for Justice, 520 Nicollet Mall, Suite 550, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, for Appellee in S23A0017.

Maxwell Kent Thelen , Ashby Thelen Lowry, 445 Franklin Gateway, Marietta, Georgia 30067, Eugene R. Curry , Law Office of Eugene R. Curry, 3010 Main Street, Barnstable, Massachusetts 02630, Joseph Diedrich , Husch Blackwell LLP, 33 East Main Street, Suite 300, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, Rebecca C. Furdek , Husch Blackwell LLP, 511 N. Broadway, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 35202-5502, Abraham James Spung , Husch Blackwell LLP, 736 Georgia Avenue, Suite 300, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402, Glenn A. Delk , Lightmas & Delk, Suite 1150, The Peachtree, 1355 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3269, Wilson C. Freeman , Pacific Legal Foundation, 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1290, Sacramento, California 95814, Timothy Sandefur , Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, Goldwater Institute, 500 E. Coronado Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, Madison Hunter Kitchens , Seth Isaac Euster, King & Spalding LLP, 1180 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, John Franklin Sacha, Jr. , King & Spalding, 1180 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Amicus Appellee in S23A0017.

Amy Lee Copeland , Rouse & Copeland, LLC, 602 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Amicus Appellant in S23A0017.

Yasha Heidari , Heidari Power Law Group, LLC, 2997 Cobb Parkway, #724615, Atlanta, Georgia 31139, Renee D. Flaherty , Institute for Justice, 901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900, Arlington, Virginia 22203, Jaimie Cavanaugh , Institute for Justice, 520 Nicollet Mall, Suite 550, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, for Appellant in S23X0018.

Maxwell Kent Thelen , Ashby Thelen Lowry, 445 Franklin Gateway, Marietta, Georgia 30067, Eugene R. Curry , Law Office of Eugene R. Curry, 3010 Main Street, Barnstable, Massachusetts 02630, for Amicus Appellant in S23X0018.

Ross Warren Bergethon , Deputy Solicitor-General, Maximillian James Changus , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote , Deputy Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Stephen John Petrany , Solicitor-General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellee in S23X0018.

Anthony L. Cochran , Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, 1105 West Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Emma Cramer , Smith, Gambrell & Russell, 1005 W. Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Neutral Amicus.


In 2018, Mary Jackson and a nonprofit organization, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc. ("ROSE"), filed a complaint against the Secretary of State ("the Secretary"),1 challenging the constitutionality of the Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice Act ("the Act"), OCGA §§ 43-22A-1 to 43...

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