Legal Opinion
Fulton County v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 3, 2016No. S16A0689PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Justice.
In 2015, the City of Atlanta proposed to annex property in unincorporated Fulton County that the City recently had acquired, but the County objected to the proposed annexation. The property in question is a part of the Fulton County Industrial District, and the County pointed the City to a local constitutional amendment, which prohibits the annexation of property within the District. The City then filed a lawsuit against the County, alleging that the local amendment was never constitutionally adopted, it was repealed in any event by operation of the Constitution of 1983,…
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