In a section that most lawyers are unlikely to encounter in their day-to-day practice, the Georgia Code throws a procedural curveball that can strike you out (or at least delay your at-bat) if you fail to see it coming in a matter involving the state or a state official. Section 9-10-2 requires that a party give the attorney general five days’ advance written notice of a proceeding. The statute provides:

Any verdict, decision, judgment, decree, order, ruling, or other judicial action by any court in this state in any matter in which this state or an official of this state in his official capacity is a party defendant, intervenor, respondent, appellee, or plaintiff in fi. fa. shall be void unless it affirmatively appears as a matter of record either:

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