§ 9-4-3.Further relief; interlocutory extraordinary relief to preserve status quo

A declaratory judgment petition does not have to stand alone. Subsection (a) lets a petitioner ask for further plenary relief in the same action — damages, injunction, mandamus, or quo warranto among other things — governed by the same process, service, and procedure rules that apply to a proceeding under O.C.G.A. § 9-4-5. The court is directed to award whatever relief the pleadings and evidence support, and if the petition fails to properly state a claim for declaratory relief itself, that failure does not cost the petitioner the other relief otherwise available.

That last point matters in practice: a petitioner does not lose everything just because the declaratory-judgment piece of the case was framed imperfectly. The court can still award the damages, injunction, or other relief the facts support.

Subsection (b) addresses the gap between filing and final judgment. While the case is pending, a court can grant an injunction or other interlocutory extraordinary relief to keep things as they are or to preserve equitable rights, using substantially the same rules that apply in ordinary equity cases. This keeps a party from being harmed by a change in circumstances while the court works out what the parties’ rights are.