Today we had oral arguments in the Georgia Supreme Court. It may be presumptuous to call it a win, but every indication is that we scored a crushing win and we will be remanded back to the trial court for discovery.
The Justices did not offer any challenging questions for my excellent attorney, largely agreeing with her arguments while simultaneously expressing skepticism at the arguments the Antonakakis team made. I think Mr. Randles did a fine job — but the facts just aren’t on their side.
30 years of case law and the plain statutory language shows I did everything properly when requesting records from Antonakakis and they are liable for his non-compliance.
In a case where I was sanctioned nearly $54,000 by the trial court, there is every indication that we just won the case. That’s a Hollywood story and never what I expected. The case will likely be cited for the next 30 years, it’ll be nice to be on the winning side of that.
We advanced the Open Records law, and more importantly are back in the fight with two years of planning on what to do next.
We are ready to go another 15 rounds.
Bravo!! Keep up the good work.
Hell yeah, I bet that feels good. Time for a Gatorade.