By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter
More than 100 businesses, trade groups, local chambers of commerce and
elected officials have joined the Georgia Chamber of Commerce in asking the
state Court of Appeals to look at a Fulton County judge's recent ruling that
scuttles the permit for a proposed South Georgia power plant.
The Georgia Chamber files amicus curiae briefs in court cases from time to
time, last year filing in defense of a fee-shifting rule that was part of
the 2005 tort reform legislation. But it's unusual to see the organization
announcing its amicus brief in a press release and previewing it with an
op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as it did July 16 in the
power plant case.
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