ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia’s highest court has reversed a lower court’s ruling in a years-long border dispute between Bibb and Monroe counties.
In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Carol Hunstein and released Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court sent the case back to the Fulton County Superior Court.
The justices determined that the lower court could compel Secretary of State Brian Kemp to resolve the dispute between the counties, but could not require him to pick a specific boundary.
A Fulton County judge in January 2013 ordered Kemp to set the border south of where it was marked. The judge ordered Kemp to use a controversial 2009 survey he has rejected many times.
Bibb County and Kemp appealed the trial court decision to the state Supreme Court.
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