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• Constitution of the United States
• Constitution of the state of Georgia
• Statute of frauds and perjuries --Habeus corpus act
• Judiciary Act of 1799

• Research process and legal analysis
• Planning, documenting, and organizing research
• Research techniques
• Secondary sources
• Statutes, court rules, and municipal ordinances
• Judicial opinions
• Researching judicial opinions
• Administrative law
• Constitutions
• Legislative history
• Citators
• Legal ethics
• Dockets and analytics

"Georgia Legal Research was written for legal researchers at various levels, including first-year law students, paralegals, and Georgia practitioners. The book explains research skills and strategies with a focus on Georgia sources. The book also includes instruction on legal writing and citations"-- Provided by publisher

Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With this book, Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard. Saving the Georgia Coast brings to light the intriguing and colorful characters who formed that coalition: wealthy island owners, hunters and fishermen, people who made their home on the coast, courageous political leaders, garden-club members, clean-water protectors, and journalists. It explores how that political coalition came together behind governmental leaders and traces the origins of environmental organizations that continue to impact policy today. Saving the Georgia Coast enhances the reader's understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster's account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present. Current demands on the coastal environment are different-including spaceports and sea rise from climate change-but the political pressures to generate new wealth and new jobs, or to perch a home on the edge of the sea, are no different than fifty years ago. Saving the Georgia Coast spotlights the past and present decisions needed to balance human desires with the limits of what nature has to offer.
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Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With this book, Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard. Saving the Georgia Coast brings to light the intriguing and colorful characters who formed that coalition: wealthy island owners, hunters and fishermen, people who made their home on the coast, courageous political leaders, garden-club members, clean-water protectors, and journalists. It explores how that political coalition came together behind governmental leaders and traces the origins of environmental organizations that continue to impact policy today. Saving the Georgia Coast enhances the reader's understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster's account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present. Current demands on the coastal environment are different-including spaceports and sea rise from climate change-but the political pressures to generate new wealth and new jobs, or to perch a home on the edge of the sea, are no different than fifty years ago. Saving the Georgia Coast spotlights the past and present decisions needed to balance human desires with the limits of what nature has to offer.
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By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination.

• Reports of cases argued and determined in the Superior Courts of the Eastern District of the state of Georgia / Thomas U.P. Charlton
• Reports of decisions made in the Superior Courts of the Eastern District of Georgia / Robert M. Charlton
• Reports of decisions made by the judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Chancery of the state of Georgia / G.M. Dudley
• Decisions of the Superior Courts of the state of Georgia.

• Foreword by R. Perry Sentell, Jr.
• Series Foreword by G. Alan Tarr
• Acknowledgments
• The Constitutional History of Georgia
• Early Government in Georgia
• The Constitution of 1777
• The Constitution of 1789
• The Constitution of 1798
• The Constitution of 1861
• The Constitution of 1865
• The Constitution of 1868
• The Constitution of 1877
• Developments from 1877 to 1945
• The Constitution of 1945
• The Constitution of 1976
• The Constitution of 1983
• Constitutional Amendments
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Georgia Constitution and Commentary
• Preamble
• Article I: Bill of Rights
• Article II: Voting and Elections
• Article III: Legislative Branch
• Article IV: Constitutional Boards and Commissions
• Article V: Executive Branch
• Article VI: Judicial Branch
• Article VII: Taxation and Finance
• Article VIII: Education
• Article IX: Counties and Municipal Corporations
• Article X: Amendments to the Constitution
• Article XI: Miscellaneous Provisions
• Bibliographic Essay
• Local Constitutional Amendments in Force and Effect as of July 1, 1993
• Table of Cases
• Index.
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In The Georgia State Constitution, Melvin Hill Jr. offers a detailed description of the creation and development of Georgia's constitution. He explains how political and cultural events, from colonial times, through the Civil War, to the present, have affected Georgia's constitutional law. Accompanying the full text of the constitution is Hill's rich commentary of the constitutional provisions. He traces their origins and interpretation by the courts and other governmental bodies. This volume also provides a bibliographical essay which features the most important sources of Georgia's constitutional history and constitutional law. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series. This title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important new series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
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• Trial courts
• Research framework and study site
• Civil justice in Mountain County
• Civil mediation in Mountain County
• The impact of mediation on case processing in Hall County
• Mediation, civil justice, and court actors.

Annotation Hartley examines the introduction of alternative dispute resolution (e.g., mediation) in a court system in Georgia. Attorneys supported the introduction of mediation to consolidate control of the legal process and to add it to their practices. They also used mediation to settle some cases more quickly. Mediation gave judges flexibility to weed out minor cases and process others more quickly. However, these changes were not so great as to put a dent in settlement or trial rates, and Hartley concludes that while changes in court procedures have effects, researchers need to examine the behavior of actors in depth in order to discover these effects.