Content and appearance of reports; number of volumes per year

(a) The reports shall contain the decisions rendered in all cases presented to the Supreme Court of Georgia and to the Court of Appeals of Georgia and an index of all cases reported. No report shall contain any argument or brief of counsel beyond a statement of the major points and authorities. (b) The reporter has the duty to ascertain that the reports are uniform in size and appearance. Whenever it becomes necessary, due to a variance in the number of decisions rendered, the reporter, in order to maintain the desired uniformity, may provide for the production of more than one volume from either court in any one year or may consolidate decisions of either court from two different years into one volume, but in no case shall the decisions of the Supreme Court be combined in one volume with the decisions of the Court of Appeals. History. — Laws 1856, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 455; Code 1863, § 222; Code 1868, § 216; Code 1873, § 230; Code 1882, § 230; Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 76, § 11; Civil Code 1895, §§ 1088, 1092; Civil Code 1910, §§ 1357, 1361; Code 1933, §§ 90-208, 90-209; Code 1933, § 90-206, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 460, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1432, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 6/SB 388. 50-18-27. Responsibilities of reporter; subject to dismissal if reports not published within six months of delivery. (a) The reporter shall furnish to the publisher the manuscript of the decisions, read the proof and correct the same, and furnish for each volume an index of the cases reported. (b) If the reporter shall fail to publish the volumes of reports within six months of the time of the delivery to him of the last of the decisions to be included in a particular volume, he shall be subject to immediate dismissal unless good cause for such delay is shown to the satisfaction of a panel composed of three Justices of the Supreme Court appointed by the Chief Justice and two Judges of the Court of Appeals appointed by the Chief Judge. History. — Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 452; Code 1863, § 223; Code 1868, § 217; Code 1873, § 231; Code 1882, § 231; Civil Code 1895, § 1093; 290 Civil Code 1910, § 1362; Ga. L. 1920, p. 237, § 6; Code 1933, §§ 90-210, 90-211; Code 1933, § 90-207, enacted by Ga. L. 50-18-28 1972, p. 460, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1432, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 7/SB 388.