Anthony B. Askew, Lisa Pavento, Warren James Thomas, Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff.
Elizabeth Hannah Rader, Alston & Bird, LUP, Washington, DC, Sarah Parker LaFantano, Jason D. Rosenberg, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant.
ORDER
RICHARD W. STORY, United States District Judge
This matter is before the Court on Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment [Doc. No. 29] and Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [Doc. No. 30].
I. Factual Background
Plaintiff Code Revision Commission (“Commission”) is composed of the Lieutenant Governor, four members of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, four additional members of the House of Representatives, and four members appointed by the State Bar of Georgia, one of whom is a judge or senior judge of the State Superior Courts and one of whom is a State district attorney. O.C.G.A., Foreword at x. The Commission assists the Georgia legislature in publishing the laws it enacts in the Official Code of Georgia (“O.C.G.A.”) [Doc. No. 29-1, ¶12, admitted; Doc. No. 17, ¶82]. The Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1977 and was tasked with selecting a publishing firm “possessing the necessary expertise and manpower to ac-