Georgia Supreme Court

GA Appeals Court And Supreme Court Opinions
Look up case law on line.

GA Code Of Judicial Conduct (Governs Judges)

Suing In GA State and Magistrate Courts & Modifying Court Orders
Various brochures on what to do and where to go.

Georgia City, State & County Courts

Liberty Court Forms

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Georgia Law Reviews Online

Mercer Law Revew
Articles on over 40 topics, many of which are Georgia law specific.

Law Journals (Schools A-Z)
Lots of schools but far from complete.
For an alternate site click Here.

Federal Courts

Understanding The U.S. Federal Courts  (General Oerview)

District Courts Of Georgia

Federal Court Forms (Free)
Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy and other forms used by the federal courts.

The Eleventh Circuit (Fed Appeals Ct of GA)

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Small Claims Courts

GA Consumer's Guide To Magistrate Courts 
Learn things like: what evidence you need to win, where to file, how much you can sue for, court filing fees, filing an appeal and how to collect your judgment. 

Suing In GA State and Magistrate Courts & Modifying Court Orders
Various brochures on what to do and where to go.

GA Magistrate Court Garnishment FAQs
See Their Garnishment Section-applies to all counties.

GA Code Of Judicial Conduct (Governs Judges)

How to Sue in Georgia's Magistrate Courts
Filing fees, how to prepare for trial, court addresses and more.

What Should I Do To Prepare My Small Claims Case? (Nolo.com)
More on presenting good evidence to win your case.

Uniform Rules For GA Magistrate Courts

How To Sue In Cobb County Magistrate Court (GA)

Liberty Court Forms (GA)
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Jury Duty & Being a Witness

Jury Duty (GA)
General background information on how a jury is selected, the role of a juror and how they should conduct themselves, the difference between civil and criminal cases and the procedure and sequence of events at trial.

Does My Employer Have To Pay Me While I'm On Jury Duty? (Georgia)

How To Be A Good Witness (GA)

State By State Laws On Paying Jurors For Jury Duty (DC Also)
Select your state from their map and learn whether your employer has to 
pay you for jury duty and whether you can be fired for serving.

Juror Qualifications & Juror Pay (All 50 States & DC)
Starting at Page 4: Qualifications for jurors and where each state gets it's pool of applicants from. Starting at Page 10: juror exemptions, juror excusals and juror compensation in all 50 states & DC.

FAQ's About Juror Pay, Juror Excusals & Juror Qualifications 
Main source is the same as link above but with a table of contents to guide you.

Jurors' Rights (Lots of Links)


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Does My Employer Have To Pay Me While I'm On Jury Duty? (Georgia)
Under Georgia law, you must be paid if you are salaried or earn steady wages.  This applies to workers with steady hourly wages as well as those on salary.  However, the employer can take whatever juror pay you receive above your work earnings.

In addition, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), offers addition protection.  FLSA requires that exempt employees still receive their full weekly salary even when jury duty caused them to work only part of the week. See CFR Section 541.602(b)(3).  So in Georgia, salaried employees are often protected by both federal and state law. This means you can ask both the Federal and State Departments of Labor to enforce the law against your employer.

The difference between GA law and federal law is that fed law does not require you get any of your weekly earnings when you are paid hourly or when jury duty causes a salaried employee to miss a full week of work.  However, the 1989 Opinion of the GA Attorney General does not distinguish between hourly and salary so the employer must pay you regardless.

Note, if an employer routinely makes improper deductions from exempt salaried employees, the employer may be in serious trouble.  It could transform a salaried worker into a wage worker and make the employer liable for retroactive overtime!  Imagine all those hours you worked over 40.  If the employer loses in a lawsuit, they would have to pay you overtime for such!

1989 Op. Atty Gen. Ga. 129

Summary

Under Georgia law, you must be paid if you are salaried or earn steady wages.  However, your employer can make you forfeit whatever juror pay you received from the courts.  Note: this opinion makes no distinction between full time, part time or contract employees. Nor does it distinguish between salaried workers and hourly workers. It applies to them both. So unless the scope of this opinion is narrowed by a new statute, new court decision or another Attorney General's Opinion, there's no authority an employer can cite for not paying you for jury duty. See also Employment Law Firm Commentary on Federal Law and effect of 1989 Op.Atty Gen. Ga. 129.

 ____________________________________________________________________

November 13, 1989
Honorable Joe D. Tanner
Commissioner
Georgia Department of Labor
Sussex Place
148 International Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
 

OPINION
This is in response to your recent request for my official opinion as to whether O.C.G.A. § 34-1-3 requires an employer to pay an employee his salary or wages while he is missing work to serve on jury duty. While there is no judicial decision interpreting this law, it is my opinion that the employee's total compensation cannot be penalized for time away from work to serve on jury duty.

Under the language of O.C.G.A. § 34-1-3, an employer may not discharge, discipline or otherwise "penalize" an employee who has been summoned for jury duty. Under the rules of statutory construction, it is presumed that the legislature did not intend for any word or any part of any statute to be without meaning. See Houston v. Lowes of Savannah, Inc., 235 Ga. 201, 203 (1975); City of Gainesville v. Smith, 121 Ga. App. 117, 119 (1970).

Therefore, the word "penalize" in this statute must mean something other than discharge or otherwise discipline the employee. The prohibition against penalizing an employee must mean that the employee would not suffer any financial loss by serving on jury duty.

Even though the employee cannot be penalized for serving on jury duty, it is not required that the employee receive extra financial reward for serving on jury duty. Therefore, even though the employer cannot penalize the employee, the employer would be authorized to offset the employee's salary by the amount of funds the employee receives for jury service so that the combined amounts equal his gross salary or wages.  Therefore, it is my official opinion that an employee serving on a jury cannot be penalized by a reduction in overall compensation.
MICHAEL J. BOWERS, Attorney General
Prepared by: WAYNE P. YANCEY, Senior Assistant Attorney General

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Courts In Other States
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Superior & State  Courts  

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ (50 States & DC)
Courts & The Legal Process –has state & federal courts as well as alternative dispute resolution in each state.

State & Federal Court Links (All 50 States & DC)
Also includes some municipal courts and has courts in other countries!

Courts Forms, Rules & Dockets (DC & All 50 States)
This site includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword. 

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Federal Courts

Understanding The U.S. Federal Courts

Search Full Text of U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ (50 States & DC)
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State & Federal Court Links (All 50 States & DC)
Also includes some municipal courts and has courts in other countries!

Courts Forms, Rules & Dockets (DC & All 50 States)
This site includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword. 
Understanding The US Federal Courts.

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Small Claims Courts

The Best On Small Claims Courts (All 50 States)
On left side is a small claims search engine. Select your state to find out: what evidence you need to win, where to file, how much you can sue for, court filing fees, filing an appeal and how to collect your judgment.  Also has good links  and general articles for more help.

Courts Forms, Rules & Dockets (DC & All 50 States)
This site includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword

What Should I Do To Prepare My Small Claims Case? (Nolo.com)
More on presenting good evidence to win your case.

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ (50 States & DC)
Courts & The Legal Process –has state & federal courts as well as alternative dispute resolution in each state.

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Self Help
Georgia
Other States

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Georgia & Federal

Georgia Statutes, GA Constitution and GA City Codes

Court Cases Using Google Scholar
Put in a person's name or a court case, or search for cases by key words or case citations. Can narrow word search results by adding a state. Check "How Cited" to see how later cases refer to your case and for what principle.

Georgia Case Law (1950-2002)
Enter case name in search box at top or
To find your case, by year, just click on the appropriate year.
Then find your case by holding down the the control
button and pressing the letter "F" on your keyboard.
Each case name is a link that will pull up the entire case.

Georgia Attorney General Opinions

Federal Court Forms (Free)
Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy and other forms used by the federal courts.

United States Code

Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs)

Georgia Hearsay Law (Hearsay-SOS)

GA Code Of Judicial Conduct (Governs Judges)

Find Your City's Municipal Codes (All 50 states & DC)

GA Forms (Family Law)

GA Family Law Forms  (Pickins, Gilmer & Fannin Counties)
Divorce forms, name change, legitimation, child support and contempt of court forms, domestic violence forms, and other family law court forms.

Georgia Court-Based Law Information Centers in Over 20 GA Counties-Includes Forms

Index Page For GA Forms (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)
Go here if you can't find what you're looking for below.

Annulment (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Answer and Counterclaim (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Change of Custody and Child Support (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Contempt (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Divorce (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Income Deduction Order (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Legitimation (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Modification of Child Support (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Modification of Visitation (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Name Change - Adult (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Name Change - Minor (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Poverty Affidavit (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Separation Agreement (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Voluntary Dismissal (For Fulton County, Ask Court in Your County if It Will Accept Fulton County Forms)

Assorted Legal Forms For Georgia

State Forms (35 States & DC)
Includes Georgia.

GA Forms Corporate Law

Corporate Forms For All 50 States & DC


General Forms/Forms For Other States

Corporate Forms For All 50 States & DC

Federal Court Forms (Free)
Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy and other forms used by the federal courts.

Legal Form Search Engines and Links For General Forms
Has some state specific forms.

Free Legal Forms For Most of The 50 States
Mostly hype but has good state forms on family law, corporate law and tax law. Many of their forms are generic and not state specific.

General Forms For All Occasions (The 'Lectric Law Library)
Scroll down their forms page for forms on general business matters, living wills, power of attorney, promissory notes, employment and contracting.

Select Your Circuit Court Or State For Free Federal & State Forms.

Family Law Forms In Most of The States (a few forms per state)

State Forms (35 States & DC)
Includes Georgia.

Other Legal Resources (All 50 States & DC)

State Web Locator

Search Full Text of U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts

Your State Constitution Online (All 50 States)

State Government Home Pages (All 50 States & DC)

http://www.romingerlegal.com/states.htm

http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/cstate7.htm (St Govs, Laws, City Govs, Etc.)

http://www.lawresearch.com/v10/state/cstate7.htm Courts & the above.

http://www.findlaw.com/ (State laws, resources etc.,)

County & City Code Law Search

http://www.legalengine.com
forms, state and fed law, and everything else also.

Federal Web Locator 
Through this website, cyber consumers can link to the electronic doorsteps of federal departments, agencies, commissions and quasi official agencies.  

http://www.netlizard.com/forms/formscity.html
Free legal forms.

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