Legal Opinion
Rothschild v. Columbus Consolidated Government
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided April 25, 2008No. A08A0759PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barnes, Chief Judge.
Several residents of Muscogee County, Georgia sued the Columbus Consolidated Government, the Muscogee County School District, and the Muscogee County Library Board (collectively, “the defendants”) for equitable relief, seeking to halt the defendants’ expenditure of funds generated through a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (“SPLOST”). Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court determined that the residents lacked standing to bring suit and dismissed the complaint. For reasons that follow, we affirm.
The record shows that in 1999, the defendants sought SPLOST…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Arneson v. Board of Trustees of Employees' Retirement SystemSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
- City of Atlanta v. North by Northwest Civic Ass'nSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Thornton v. Clarke County School DistrictSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
- Dickey v. StoreySupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Gaddis v. Chatsworth Health Care Center, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2006
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Rothschild II v. Columbus Consolidated GovernmentSupreme Court of Georgia · 2009
- Anti-Landfill Corp. v. North American Metal Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2009
- Rothschild v. COLUMBUS CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENTCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2009