Legal Opinion
COWEN v. CLAYTON COUNTY
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 3, 2019No. S19A0784PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
306 Ga. 698
FINAL COPY S19A0784. COWEN v. CLAYTON COUNTY et al. MELTON, Chief Justice. Linda S. Cowen, a Clayton County State Court judge since December 1995, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, in which she sought, among other things, over $120,000 in back pay from Clayton County and several of its county commissioners1 for allegedly violating Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VII, Par. V (“All judges shall receive compensation and allowances as provided by law. . . . An incumbent’s salary, allowance, or supplement shall not be decreased during the incumbent’s term of office.”). More…
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