Lisa Boggs

Petitioner, Justin Chaney, challenged Adrienne Hunter-Strothers’ qualifications to run as a candidate for the Georgia Court of Appeals.  Petitioner filed his challenge at 1:40 p.m. on July 16, 2010, precisely two weeks, one hour and forty minutes after the close of the qualifying period at 12:00 p.m. on July 2, 2010.  As Petitioner had not

Plaintiffs alleged that President Barack Obama was not a \”natural born citizen\” of the United States as required by Article II of the United States Constitution and was therefore ineligible to run for the office of President of the United States.  Plaintiffs produced no competent evidence to support their assertion that President Obama was not

The Georgia Constitution requires candidates for State Senate to have been legal residents of the district in which they are running for at least one year preceding the date of the election.  In December 2011, Matthew Laughridge, a Republican candidate for State Senate District Fourteen, established legal residency in that district by demonstrating physical presence

The Georgia Constitution provides that “[a]ppellate and superior court judges shall have been admitted to practice law for seven years.” Secretary of State Brian Kemp challenged Ms. Adrienne Hunter-Strother\’s candidacy for the Georgia Court of Appeals asserting that the valid date for determination of her eligibility was the date of her admission to practice law

Secretary of State Karen Handel challenged James Powell’s qualification to be a candidate for Public Service Commission, District 4, asserting that Powell’s homestead exemption for an address in Cobb County demonstrated that he resided outside of District 4.  Judge Michael Malihi concluded that Powell produced persuasive evidence of legal residence in District 4 and that