Court rejects state's appeal in KKK highway cleanup case
Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 12:28 pm, Tuesday, July 5, 2016
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling saying the free speech rights of a Ku Klux Klan group were violated when the state denied the organization's request to participate in a highway cleanup program.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Georgia dismissed the state's appeal of the lower court ruling on a technicality, saying the Georgia Department of Transportation failed to follow the correct procedures in filing its appeal. Because the appeal wasn't filed correctly, the high court has no jurisdiction to consider the appeal, the opinion says ...
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