No. _________ ================================================================ In The Supreme Court of the United States --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- ADVENTURE OUTDOORS, INC.; JAY WALLACE, a Georgia Resident; and CECILIA WALLACE, a Georgia Resident, Petitioners, v. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, a New York Resident and Mayor of the City of New York; TANYA MARIE NOONER, a Georgia Resident; MELISSA MERCED, a Georgia Resident, of the Nooner Investigative Group, a/k/a Nooner Initiatives, Inc.; JOSEPH TOUNSEL, a Georgia Resident, of the Nooner Investigative Group, a/k/a Nooner Initiatives, Inc. (the Estate of Tanya Marie Nooner, deceased); THE NOONER INVESTIGATIVE GROUP, a/k/a Nooner Initiatives, Inc.; THE JAMES MINTZ GROUP, and JAMES MINTZ, individually, Certain of Its Other Principals & Agents, As Yet Unidentified; MICHAEL CARDOZO, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York; JOHN FEINBLATT, Criminal Justice Coordinator of the City of New York; and RAYMOND KELLY, a New York Resident and Chief of the New York City Police Department, Respondents. --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- On Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari To The Court Of Appeals Of The State Of Georgia --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- BOB BARR* EDWIN MARGER LAW OFFICES OF EDWIN MARGER, LLC 44 North Main Street Jasper, Georgia 30143 706-253-3060
[email protected] Attorneys for Petitioners *Counsel of Record ================================================================ COCKLE LAW BRIEF PRINTING CO. (800) 225-6964 OR CALL COLLECT (402) 342-2831 i QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia’s inferior courts can ignore this Court’s mandates on appropriate and lawful restrictions of First Amend- ment freedoms and in so doing elevate the Georgia Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) Statute verification requirement over those First Amendment parameters.