Court Opinion

ID: 9586780
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:14:56.666057+00
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Plaintiffs maintain this court’s decision was not timely rendered and therefore the decision of the lower court must be affirmed by operation of law. “The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals shall dispose of every case at the term for which it is entered on the court’s docket for hearing or at the next term.” Ga. Const. Art. VI, Sec. IX, Par. II. The relevant date is not the date the appeal was filed with the court but the date the case was docketed for hearing. Although this appeal was filed in the September 1986 term of court, it was docketed for hearing during the January 1987 term. Therefore, the disposition of the appeal during the April term complies with the “two-term rule” of the Georgia Constitution.

Motion for rehearing denied.

*557Decided June 18, 1987
Rehearing denied July 7, 1987
James T. McDonald, Jr., Mark J. Goodman, for appellant.
Christopher A. Townley, John P. Neal III, James A. Secord, Amy E. Abernathy, for appellees.