Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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This is revision 73, as released by Public.Domain.Org. The release of this Code publicly, under the government-edicts doctrine, was contested in the 2020 U. S. Supreme Court case Georgia v. PRO; it was decided in favour of PRO, viâ the expansion of the government-edicts doctrine.

3176552Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA)Georgia General Assembly

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