More than two months after hearing oral arguments, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling in a dispute over the constitutionality of a county ordinance that limited a merchant’s ability to “sell and display sex devices” at two of its storefronts in Gwinnett County.
According to the high court ruling, facts “implicated” in an initial lawsuit against the county that’d been voluntarily dismissed by Starship Enterprises of Atlanta Inc., without a ruling on the merits, still amounted to res judicata, or an already adjudicated matter.
