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Final Copy 286 Ga. 784 S09A1883. WATSON v. MATTHEWS. Hines, Justice. Teresa Watson appeals the trial court's order granting a motion to dismiss her petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to require a superior court judge to produce a "log book" used for scheduling purposes. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. According to her sworn petition, Watson owns and operates a website devoted to local news in Floyd County, Georgia. In connection with that activity, she was sued for defamation in the Superior Court of Floyd County; Judge Walter Matthews presided over the case. Watson moved to dismiss the complaint filed against her and, according to Watson, Judge Matthews's administrative assistant told her that a hearing on her motion to dismiss would be held on September 23, 2008. However, on September 8, 2008, without a hearing, Judge Matthews signed an order denying Watson's motion. Watson alleges that she visited the Judge's assistant in the Judge's chambers and that the assistant produced a log book indicating that Judge Matthews had signed a rule

nisi which scheduled a hearing date of September 23, 2008 for the motion to dismiss to be heard. Watson has not caused a certified copy of the record in the defamation suit to be made a part of the record in this action, but she states in her mandamus petition that, in the defamation case, she subpoenaed the log book.1 Apparently, she has also filed requests under the Open Records Act, OCGA

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