Court Opinion

ID: 9960424
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Date Created: 2024-04-16 14:04:14.240265+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:31.305656
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                         ATLANTA,____________________
                                                  April 16, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24E0059. LOLETHA DENISE HALE v. ABSM INVESTMENTS, LLC et al.

      Loletha Denise Hale has filed an emergency motion seeking an extension of
time to file an application for discretionary appeal from the superior court’s April 9,
2024 order (1) denying Hale’s request for a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief,
and attorney fees and granting ABSM Investments, LLC’s motion for judgment on
the pleadings related to a tax foreclosure sale; and (2) issuing a writ of possession in
favor of ABSM.1 In the motion, Hale requests an extension of up to 60 days to file her
application.

      The grant or denial of injunctive relief is directly appealable. See OCGA §
5-6-34 (a) (4); Jones v. Peach Trader, Inc., 302 Ga. 504, 511 (III) (807 SE2d 840)
(2017). As a result, to the extent Hale seeks to appeal the superior court’s denial of her
petition for injunctive relief, declaratory judgment, and attorney fees, no application
was required.2

      1
          The two actions were consolidated in the superior court.
      2
        See OCGA § 5-6-34 (d) (“Where an appeal is taken under any provision of
subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this Code section, all judgments, rulings, or orders
rendered in the case which are raised on appeal and which may affect the proceedings
below shall be reviewed and determined by the appellate court, without regard to the
appealability of the judgment, ruling, or order standing alone and without regard to
whether the judgment, ruling, or order appealed from was final or was appealable by
some other express provision of law contained in this Code section, or elsewhere.”).
Accordingly, Hale’s emergency motion is hereby DENIED.

                            Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                              Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                          04/16/2024
                                       I certify that the above is a true extract from
                            the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.
                                      Witness my signature and the seal of said court
                            hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

                                                                              , Clerk.