Brooks v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “shall be limited solely to a review of the legal sufficiency of the recall ground or grounds and the legal sufficiency of the alleged fact or facts upon which such ground or grounds are based as set forth in such recall application; and the review of such alleged fact or facts shall be only for the determination of the legal sufficiency of such alleged fact or facts as to form and not as to truth and shall not include discovery or evidentiary hearings.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Morris · Phillips v. Hawthorne

2. “If one or more of the statutory grounds for recall set forth in OCGA § 21-4-3 (7) (B) are alleged in the recall application, then the ground or grounds for recall are legally sufficient. To determine if the “fact or facts upon which such ground or grounds are based” are legally sufficient, a [superior] court should consider the following: 1) assuming the fact or facts to be true, [whether] they allege misconduct which constitutes a legally sufficient ground for recall according to the statutory definition of that term; 2) if so, [whether] the fact or facts are stated with “reasonable particularity!.]” [Cit.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Morris