Legal Opinion
BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLC v. COBB COUNTY
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 18, 2019No. S17G2011PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
305 Ga. 144
FINAL COPY S17G2011. BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLC et al. v. COBB COUNTY et al. PETERSON, Justice. Cobb and Gwinnett Counties have sued telephone companies for their failure to collect and remit to the Counties a charge imposed on subscribers to offset the cost of 911 services. The telephone companies have raised various defenses to the Counties’ suits, including that the 911 charge is a tax that the Counties are not allowed to collect by a lawsuit like this one. The trial court rejected that argument and allowed the cases to proceed, but the Court of Appeals vacated that…
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