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Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Georgia, No. A25A1009 · judgment March 7, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Questions presented
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Does judicial activism violate the separation of powers?
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Can the Court act as a super legislature that imposes its own policy preferences rather than the plain meaning of the rule of law as written?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Bonnie Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith Attorney at Law
For respondent
Paul Wesley Larkin
Beamon Law, LLC
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, March 23, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 25 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Feb 10 2026Waiver of right of respondent Shirley Smith to respond filed.
- Dec 15 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 12, 2026)