Publication Date: 2015-06-18
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, John E. Hennelly, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James D. Coots, Assistant Attorney General, Britt C. Grant Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for Turner et al. in Case No. S14G1780. Nathaniel H. Hunt, William W. Sapp Southern Environmental Law Center, Atlanta, Devin H. Smith, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley Bates LLP, Athens, Kevin S. Cauley, Cairo, and Charles M. Cork III, Macon, for Georgia River Network et al. in Case No. S14G1780. Amicus Appellants in Case No. S14G1780: Patricia T. Barmeyer and Lewis B. Jones King Spalding LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Appellees in Case No. S14G1780: Donald D. J. Stack and Kevin H. Jeselnik Stack Associates PC, Atlanta. Other party representation in Case No. S14G1780: H. Gibbs Flanders Jr. Dublin Superior Court, Dublin. Devin H. Smith, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley Bates LLP, Athens, and Kevin S. Cauley, Cairo, for Grady County Bd. of Comm'rs in Case No. S14G1781. John E. Hennelly, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James D. Coots, Assistant Attorney General, Britt C. Grant Attorney General's Office,Nathaniel H. Hunt, William W. Sapp Southern Environmental Law Center, Atlanta, and Charles M. Cork III, Macon, for Georgia River Network et al. in Case No. S14G1781. Amicus Appellant in Case No. S14G1781: Patricia T. Barmeyer and Lewis B. Jones King Spalding LLP, Atlanta.
for defendant:
Case Number: S14G1780; S14G1781
The Court of Appeals erred in its construction of the Erosion and Sedimentation Act because the literal language of the statute does not require a buffer for state waters alongside banks without wre