Legal Opinion
Common Cause/Georgia v. Campbell
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 20, 2004No. A04A0955PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ellington, Judge.
Common Cause/Georgia, a chapter of Common Cause, Inc., and Elizabeth Hale Barnett (collectively, “Common Cause”) brought an action on behalf of the City of Atlanta, its citizens and its taxpayers, and naming the City as an involuntary plaintiff, against the City’s former mayor, William C. Campbell. Common Cause claimed that the City was damaged by Campbell’s failure to sign a contract within 30 days of the contract’s approval by the Atlanta City Council, or advise the City Council of his reasons for not doing so, as required by the City Code. The trial court dismissed the…
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