Which Comes First: Discretionary or Interlocutory Appeal? High Court Tackles Procedural Dispute

What You Need to Know

• Supreme Court of Georgia hears oral argument challenging appellate procedural in underlying attorneys fees and expenses dispute.
• Appellants argue the Georgia Court of Appeals erroneously concluded plaintiffs needed to file interlocutory, rather than discretionary, appeal to challenge fee award linked to voluntarily dismissed, but subsequently renewed premise liability action.
• Appellee contends that the intermediate appellate court properly dismissed the appellants' discretionary appeal application since no final judgment existed.