Legal Opinion
Pitts v. Busbee
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided June 2, 1975No. Civ. A. C74-1060APublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, Chief Judge.
In 1952, as part of an overall attempt to coordinate the governments of Atlanta and Fulton County, the Georgia General Assembly enacted a bill which established a new Fulton County Commission composed of three commissioners, all of whom were required to run for specific posts and were elected at-large in the entire county by plurality vote. Georgia Laws, 1952, p. 2672. In 1970 the General Assembly enacted legislation requiring that all elections, including those for Fulton County commissioner, be by majority vote. Ga.Code Ann. § 34-1513. In 1973 and 1974 the…
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