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DOSS v. LONG

Civ. A. No. C81-229R.

629 F.Supp. 127 (1985)

Mary L. DOSS, et al, Plaintiffs, v. James H. LONG, et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Rome Division.

August 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gloria Einstein, Ga. Legal Service, Waycross, Ga., David Webster, Emory Law Sch., Atlanta, Ga., Gary Leshaw, Decatur, Ga., John Riemer, Dalton, Ga., Robert Remar, Douglasville, Ga., William J. Cobb & John L. Cromartie, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Sam F. Little, Little & Adams, Dalton, Ga., John L. Tracy, Albany, Ga., Frank P. Samford, III, Moore, Samford & Moore, Atlanta, Ga., M. C. Pritchard, Waycross, Ga., Larry D. Woods, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

This case has been before this Court since September of 1981. It involves an action challenging the fee system for compensating inferior court judges in Georgia. Until recently, justices of the peace and almost all small claims court judges received no salary and relied for all their judicial income on the fees paid by litigants before them. Plaintiffs challenged this system claiming that it violated the due process...

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