The Supreme Court of Georgia might soon decide whether a property owner had standing to bring a Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim on behalf of a prospective buyer who had allegedly been discriminated against by a county commission board.

During oral arguments Tuesday, appellant counsel George E. Butler II of Dahlonega argued third-party standing applied to the underlying case, but appellee counsel with Buckley Christopher & Hensel in Atlanta challenged the argument as being flawed and the underlying racial discrimination claim as being unsupported by sufficient evidence.