Fayette solicitor wins court ruling over pay

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Fayette County Solicitor-General Jamie Inagawa, finding the county commission illegally cut Inagawa’s salary in July 2007.

A 1994 local law sets the Fayette solicitor’s salary at 75 percent of the salary of a State Court judge, but the county has been paying Inagawa only 58 percent of the judges’ salary — $86,771 instead of $105,339, the court ruled. The court also said the county must pay Inagawa more than five years of back pay, plus interest.