Shead v. Scholes

Marshall, Justice.

The present case involves a dispute between the director of the Cobb Pre-trial Court Services Agency (referred to as the "agency”) as appellee-plaintiff and the members of the Cobb County Civil Service Board (referred to as the "board”) as appellant-defendants.

The agency was established in 1973 by a sua sponte order of the Superior Court Judges of the Cobb Judicial Circuit to govern the procedures of the bail system of Cobb County.

The board was created under the Cobb County Civil Service System Act (Ga. L. 1964, pp. 2502-2509) (referred to as the "Act”). The Act was passed…