Court Opinion

ID: 9963051
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Date Created: 2024-04-24 15:04:34.84841+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:24:39.582234
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                        ATLANTA,____________________
                                                 April 24, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24D0304. IN RE: AKINS DOHERTY.

      In this civil action, the trial court entered an order requiring the parties’
attorneys to pay the clerk of court $1,230 each to cover the costs associated with
mustering a jury panel when their case did not go forward on the day scheduled for
trial. Plaintiff’s counsel Akins Doherty then filed this application for discretionary
review of the court’s order. We lack jurisdiction.
      Based on the limited application materials, it appears that this civil action
remains pending in the trial court. As a result, Doherty was required to use the
interlocutory appeal procedures — including obtaining a certificate of immediate
review from the trial court — to appeal the order at issue here. See OCGA § 5-6-34
(b); Boyd v. State, 191 Ga. App. 435, 435 (383 SE2d 906) (1989). Pretermitting whether
the trial court’s order otherwise would be subject to the discretionary appeal statute,
see OCGA § 5-6-35, Doherty’s failure to comply with the interlocutory appeal
requirements deprives us of jurisdiction over this application, which is hereby
DISMISSED. See Bailey v. Bailey, 266 Ga. 832, 833 (471 SE2d 213) (1996).

                                        Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                                          Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                                      04/24/2024
                                                   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.