A superior court judge has given the Georgia Attorney General’s Office and the city of Cumming until Aug. 9 to resolve an open meetings dispute or he will hear supplemental evidence in the case. The attorney general is suing Cumming over an incident last year in which a woman was ordered to stop filming a city council meeting.

The city presented arguments Thursday claiming it was immune from prosecution by another government under the Sovereign Immunity provision of the state constitution.

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Atlanta civil rights leader and international human rights activist Joe Beasley, pictured in 2011, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at age 88. (Curtis Compton/AJC 2011 )

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A migrant farmworker harvests Vidalia onions at a farm in Collins, in 2011. A coalition of farmworkers, including one based in Georgia, filed suit last month in federal court arguing that cuts to H-2A wages will trigger a cut in the pay and standard of living of U.S. agricultural workers. (Bita Honarvar/AJC)

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