Georgia Dept. of Human Services v. Addison

This case involved a variety of constitutional challenges to Georgia’s Child Abuse Registry that a group of high school teachers and administrators filed directly to superior court after their names were put on the Registry. The Georgia Supreme Court determined it could not properly reach the merits of those challenges - and neither could the trial court – because some of the claims were barred by sovereign immunity and the remaining ones should have been raised in the then-pending administrative proceeding also initiated by the teachers and administrators. Accordingly, the Supreme Court reversed the part of the trial court’s order concluding that the trial court could decide the merits of the challenges, vacated the part of the order declaring the Registry statutes and rules to be unconstitutional and granting injunctive relief, and remanded with direction to dismiss the case. View "Georgia Dept. of Human Services v. Addison" on Justia Law