Coastal Marshlands Prot

Comm. v. Altamaha Riverkeeper, Inc., 304 Ga. App. 1, 695 S.E.2d 273, cert. denied, No. S10C1494, 2010 Ga. LEXIS 745 (Ga. 2010). Superior court order remanding a case back to the administrative tribunal does not constitute a final judgment. State Health Planning Review Bd. v. Piedmont Hosp., 173 Ga. App. 450, 326 S.E.2d 814 (1985). Rate case remand order considered final judgment. — Trial court’s remand order to the Public Service Commission after making a determination that the matter should be treated as a rate case, rather than a mere accounting matter, was a final order or judgment subject to direct appeal. Georgia Public Serv. Comm’n v. Campaign for a Prosperous Ga., 229 Ga. App. 28, 492 S.E.2d 916 (1997). Remand returning case for consideration of new evidence was functionally a final order. — ALJ order remanding a case to the Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee was functionally and substantively an appealable final judgment; the remand did more than merely return the case for consideration of additional issues and evidence, but was ordered on the basis that the committee 78 erred as a matter of law in the committee’s construction of a statute. Coastal Marshlands Prot. Comm. v. Ctr. for a Sustainable Coast, 286 Ga. App. 518, 649 S.E.2d 619 (2007), aff ’d, 284 Ga. 736, 670 S.E.2d 429 (2008). Agency party has authority to appeal judgment of court. — State Board of Pharmacy, being an agency which is also defined as a party, has the authority to appeal an adverse judgment of the superior court. Georgia State Bd. of Pharmacy v. Bennett, 126 Ga. App. 307, 190 S.E.2d 788 (1972). Finding of no irreparable harm from interim decision was appealable. — Superior court’s decision that a candidate had not shown irreparable harm justifying immediate appeal to the superior court under O.C.G.A. § 50-13-19(a) from an interim decision of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission was a 50-13-20.1 final decision appealable to the Court of Appeals. Oxendine v. Gov’t Transparency & Campaign Fin. Comm’n, 341 Ga. App. 901, 802 S.E.2d 310 (2017). Cited in Howell v. Harden, 129 Ga. App. 200, 198 S.E.2d 890 (1973); Howell v. Harden, 231 Ga. 594, 203 S.E.2d 206 (1974); Graham v. Board of Exmrs., 133 Ga. App. 430, 211 S.E.2d 385 (1974); Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n v. Southern Bell, 254 Ga. 244, 327 S.E.2d 726 (1985); Johnsen v. Collins, 875 F. Supp. 1571 (S.D. Ga. 1994); Atmos Energy Corp. v. Ga. PSC, 290 Ga. App. 243, 659 S.E.2d 385 (2008); Atmos Energy Corp. v. Ga. PSC, 290 Ga. App. 243, 659 S.E.2d 385 (2008); Longleaf Energy Assocs., LLC v. Friends of the Chattahoochee, Inc., 298 Ga. App. 753, 681 S.E.2d 203 (2009); DeKalb County Sch. Dist. v. Ga. State Bd. of Educ., 294 Ga. 349, 751 S.E.2d 827 (2013); C&M Enters. of Ga., LLC v. Williams, 346 Ga. App. 79, 816 S.E.2d 44 (2018).