Yield, Inc. v. City of Atlanta

The City of Atlanta has this petitioner between the rock and the hard place. In my view this unpopular petitioner is being abused by the system like a speed trap victim in a kangaroo court.

The petitioner’s bath house business was closed by order of a magistrate of the municipal court of Atlanta. The method for obtaining review of a decision of that court is by writ of certiorari to the superior court.

Within a week petitioner filed its petition for writ of certiorari in the superior court and that court, after considering the petition, sanctioned it and ordered the city magistrate to answer…