Sahar Alwadi v. Atlanta Police Department

Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

ATLANTA,____________________
June 15, 2026

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A26D0525. SAHAR ALWADI v. ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT et al.

Sahar Alwadi sued the Atlanta Police Department and several individual
officers for violating her constitutional rights and causing her bodily harm. The trial
court dismissed the complaint, and Alwadi filed an application for discretionary appeal
in the Supreme Court of Georgia. That Court transferred the application here upon
finding no basis for jurisdiction there. See Case No. S26D1161 (Apr. 29, 2026).
Under OCGA § 5-6-34(a)(1)(B), a party may file a direct appeal from “[a]ll
final judgments, that is to say, where the case is no longer pending in the court below,
except as provided in Code Section 5-6-35.” Based on the limited application
materials, the trial court’s dismissal order appears to be a final judgment, and no
provision of OCGA § 5-6-35(a), the discretionary appeal statute, appears to apply.
The order, therefore, appears to be subject to direct appeal.
We will grant a timely application for discretionary appeal if the lower court’s
order is subject to direct appeal. See OCGA § 5-6-35(j). Accordingly, this application
is hereby GRANTED. Alwadi shall have ten days from the date of this order to file a
notice of appeal with the trial court. If she has already filed a notice of appeal in the
trial court, she need not file a second notice. The clerk of the trial court is
DIRECTED to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the Court of
Appeals.

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
06/15/2026
I certify that the above is a true extract from
the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Witness my signature and the seal of said court
hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

, Clerk.