Anderson v. Deas

Phipps, Judge.

In Anderson v. Deas, Jonita Anderson charged Raymond Deas with having committed acts of family violence (i.e., making terroristic threats and stalking) by placing harassing and intimidating telephone calls to her in Georgia from another state. We held that because any such acts would not have occurred in Georgia, Anderson’s charges did not give the Superior Court of DeKalb County personal jurisdiction over Deas under § 2 (b) of the Family Violence Act (FVA). The Supreme Court of Georgia granted certiorari and remanded the case to us for reconsideration of our holding in light of…