GA · rules
Ga. Unif. Super. Ct. R. 20
PEREMPTORY CALENDAR
Periodically the assigned judge may cause to be delivered to the clerk of the court and published
a list of pending civil actions in which the discovery period has expired or criminal cases upon
reasonable notice requiring the parties (including the state) or their attorneys to announce
whether the actions or cases appearing thereon are ready for trial and when trial should be
scheduled. Failure to appear at the calendar sounding or otherwise to advise the judge or
appropriate calendar clerk may result in the following disposition:
(A) In civil actions, the dismissal without prejudice of plaintiff’s action or defendant's answer,
counterclaim, or cross claim; and,
(B) In criminal cases, the acquitting of the accused defendant or the dead docketing of the case.
Provenance
- Source
- georgiasuperiorcourts.org
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
d8568e330f68aaa6f46aca4eb93af1512217df9fbc7fc38bfee615cd052cf53e
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.