Legal Opinion

CATOOSA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY v. HENRY

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 17, 2024No. S24A0917PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

319 Ga. 794

FINAL COPY S24A0917. CATOOSA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY et al. v. HENRY et al. PETERSON, Presiding Justice. Elections matter. For this reason, parties wanting a court to throw out the results of an election after it has occurred must clear significant hurdles. And for decades, our precedent has made crystal clear that the first such hurdle is for the parties seeking to undo an election to have done everything within their power to have their claims decided before the election occurred. But in this case, the parties wanting us to throw out election results ignored this long- standing…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Jordan v. CookSupreme Court of Georgia · 2003
  2. Swain v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2006
  3. Whitmer v. ThurmanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
  4. Parham v. StewartSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020
  5. Bell v. RaffenspergerSupreme Court of Georgia · 2021

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. PONDER v. DAVISSupreme Court of Georgia · 2024
  2. Peterson v. VieSupreme Court of Georgia · 2024
  3. DEAN v. STATE OF GEORGIASupreme Court of Georgia · 2025
  4. WEST v. WITTENSTEINSupreme Court of Georgia · 2024

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