The Georgia Court of Appeals kicked off its August term weighing an authority debate over the fate of a proposed free-standing emergency department in central Georgia.

Unlike many oral arguments, the Aug. 3 session before the Fourth Division panel involved few questions from Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard and Judges Amanda Mercier and Todd Markle. Instead, attorneys received few interruptions as they debated whether Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) Commissioner Caylee Noggle possessed the authority to overturn a hearing officer’s decision about the facility sought in Bonaire, about 20 miles south of Macon.

‘Cherry-picking Facts’

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