Trip Network, Inc. v. Dempsey

Melton, Justice.

Trip Network, Inc. d/b/a Cheaptickets, and various other online travel companies (hereinafter collectively the “OTCs”) appeal from the Superior Court of Fulton County’s dismissal of their petition for a writ of mandamus. As explained more fully below, because there was no basis for a writ of mandamus to be issued under the facts of this case, the trial court properly dismissed the OTCs’ petition. Accordingly, we affirm.

In order to place this appeal in the proper context, some background information about the underlying lawsuit between the parties and the current procedural…