Ammon Sumrall v. Gary Long

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ March 23, 2022 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A22A0445. AMMON SUMRALL v. GARY LONG. The trial court entered an order denying prison inmate Ammon Sumrall’s petition for a writ of mandamus in this civil case. Sumrall filed a notice of appeal from that order.1 We, however, lack jurisdiction. While judgments and orders granting or refusing to grant mandamus relief are generally directly appealable, see OCGA § 5-6-34 (a) (7), under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, any appeal in a civil case that was…