On December 30, 2016, Judge Gail S. Tusan, Chief Judge of the Fulton County Superior Court ordrered the Georgia Board of Regents : to perform their duty in applying the federal definition of lawful presence as it relates to students who are DACA Recipients and to grant them in-state tuition status. This is the Court's final order in this matter . . . . There are thousands of students in Georgia affected by this Order and they all want to know what this order means. Generally speaking, under Georgia law, a trial court judgment is automatically stayed for 10 days after its entry and, during this 10 day period, enforcement of the judgment is prohibited. What this might normally mean, is that students cannot seek in-state tuition under this order until January 10, 2017, pursuant to Ga Code 9-11-62(a) . However, this section has typically been read to apply only to monetary judgments, not to orders like this case, which is an order of action to a state agency in a mandamus case....
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