Georgia Legal Overview: Atlanta The Atlanta metro area in Georgia is defined by the Census Bureau as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta metropolitan statistical area. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta MSA is a part of the larger Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville CSA, which spans across as many as 28 different counties in north Georgia. The nine counties listed by the official “Metro Atlanta” tourism website include Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Clayton, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, and Henry counties. The major cities and towns in the Atlanta metro area are as listed below.
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1. Each county in Georgia is served by a judicial circuit located within a larger judicial district. Atlanta and Fulton County are served by the Fifth District Judicial Circuit. The Fulton County Superior Court is located at the county courthouse in Atlanta, and serves as the main trial court with general jurisdiction. The city and county are additionally served by a limited jurisdiction state court for handling misdemeanors, traffic violations and civil actions which are not filed with superior court. Atlanta additionally has separate magistrate, juvenile and probate courts. 2. A 17-year-old inmate in the Fulton County Jail named Fabian Avery III was moved out to Pelham due to overcrowding and ended up dead inside of a month. His mother has now filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming wrongful death and civil rights violations. 3. Bobby Abbot, the father of Ariston Waiters, the teen who was shot twice in the back and killed by a Union City police officer, has filed a lawsuit in Fulton County State Court alleging wrongful death. Union City and Officer Luther Lewis Friday are listed as the defendants.
Atlanta Judicial Circuit Superior Courts
Trending Atlanta Legal Topics: Appeals against verdicts in the state, juvenile and superior courts must be filed with the Georgia Court of Appeals. Appeals for some probate matters and all the magistrate and municipal court decisions are handled by the superior court. The Georgia Supreme Court is the court of last resort. Federal cases in the Atlanta metro area may be filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Federal appeals in Georgia are handled by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. |