by Hannah Nightingale at The Post Millennial
The Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia has ordered that District Attorney Fani Willis hand over all communications she had with special counsel Jack Smith and the defunct January 6 Committee to Judicial Watch, which sued Willis under the Open Records Act (ORA).
The court granted the default judgment motion brought forth by Judicial Watch, which stated that Willis had been served with the lawsuit in March 2024, but by May when Judicial Watch asked the court to declare default judgment, Willis had still “not filed an answer” despite it being due “30 days after service.”
The order centers around the deadline in which Willis had to respond, with Willis being served on March 11 and a return of service being filed two days later. However, the latter document did not appear on the court’s electronic docket. In April the court, “believing that Defendant had not yet been served,” filed an order directing Judicial Watch to serve the defendant, who refiled the return that showed Willis had been served on March 11.
Willis claimed that “she relied on the Court’s 15 April 2024 Order directing Plaintiff to serve her and so did not immediately file an answer because of her ‘understanding that service had not been perfected,’” and that the court’s April 15 filing required the plaintiffs to serve her for a second time, the plaintiffs had not yet done so, and that she was therefore not required to respond yet.
“The Court finds Defendant is in default and has…
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