JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A court in Cobb County, Georgia, issued an order Monday to accommodate voters who requested absentee ballots that were never sent. The Georgia ACLU represented voters who had not yet received their absentee ballots in this matter.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a Biden administration immigration policy. In a 5-4 order, the Supreme Court Thursday denied the Biden administration’s application to reinstate an immigration memorandum that would stop deportation unless the non-citizen is a threat to national security, public safety or border security.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. Superior Court Judge William R. Arbery was unarmed. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on October 18.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The strains on the system began during the pandemic as the court case backlog ballooned the jail population.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments for Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , the court will decide whether a public school employee has the right, under the First Amendment, to pray in view of students on the football field. The district court ruled in favor of the that the school district. In Kennedy v.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

Georgia courts are having trouble addressing case backlogs because the state has a shortage of lawyers, including prosecutors and public defenders, the state’s chief justice…

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Georgia prosecutors have affirmed that District Attorney Fani Willis has filed court papers in Atlanta’s Fulton County declaring her intention to seek the death penalty for Robert Aaron Long, the suspect accused of murdering four people at two Asian-run day spas there, and designating the case as a hate crime based on race or gender, reports (..)

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This fall, Georgia courts are contending with questions about whether the CEO of General Motors can be deposed in a civil case stemming from a car wreck and considering state duty-to-warn laws in a $200 million injury case. Here, Law360 breaks down four Georgia cases attorneys should be watching.

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Law 360

JULY 6, 2021

Georgia appeals courts have upended decades of precedent on how attorneys can appeal trial rulings, freed employers and landowners from liability in high-dollar personal injury cases and refused to narrow the window for high ranking corporate executives to be deposed, in their most significant rulings of the year to date.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Trademark & Copyright Law

MAY 8, 2020

On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Georgia has one official code, the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (the “OCGA”), which includes the text of every Georgia statute currently in force. The Background.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley has ruled that defense attorneys representing the three men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery cannot present evidence at trial of Arbery’s past run-ins with the law, pointing out that doing so essentially would put the slain Arbery on trial, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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The Crime Report

JULY 25, 2022

Seven of Georgia’s elected prosecutors, and state Rep. Renitta Shannon, continue to persist battling against criminalizing reproductive health decisions after a federal appeals court allowed the state’s six-week abortion ban to take effect, reports Bloomberg News.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of federal courts to review certain factual findings in immigration proceedings that determine whether noncitizens will be deported or will be allowed to remain in the country. But the Supreme Court held that a federal immigration statute — 8 U.S.C. The ruling in Patel v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Earlier this month, a Georgia man was arrested and charged with one count of false personation of an officer or employee of the United States. allegedly attempted to pass himself off as a CIA Agent to the Columbus, Georgia U.S. Attorney Peter Leary. Robert Earhart Jr.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

The Georgia Supreme Court's new test for determining if a crime was foreseeable on a business property is likely to force more premises owners and operators toward trial in negligent security cases, Peach State defense attorneys say.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

The case had been turned over to the Trumbull County Grand Jury in November to determine if Watts should be indicted to stand trial after the municipal court found probable cause to believe Watts guilty. After the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. In October, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A Fulton County Judge overturned the LIFE Act on Tuesday, a 3-year-old law banning abortion at around six weeks in Georgia, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern reports. The law, which did not take effect until after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

“Citing Taylor Swift, Supreme Court Seems Set to Back Nominal Damages Suits; Three justices discussed the singer in a case over whether two students could sue their college for violating their First Amendment rights”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Supreme Court oral argument in Uzuegbunam v.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A Georgia Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday looked for a way to lessen a sanction described by one attorney as a "death sentence" for a dental clinic that refused to answer discovery requests in a case involving children sickened by a bacterial infection after visiting the clinic.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2022

District Judge Lisa Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia told Travis McMichael during sentencing that “You killed a man on Feb. ” Arbery was murdered in February 2020 while out for a jog in Satilla Shores, Georgia.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Patel v. Garland (“the immigration case”) asking whether a federal court can review a decision by an agency within the Department of Justice ruling that a person is ineligible for permanent residency and in Hughes v. Thus, Patel sought review before the Supreme Court.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The federal convictions come after the men were convicted by a Georgia state court jury in November. The federal convictions mean that the men will likely face significant prison time, even if their state court convictions are overturned or sentences reduced on appeal.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

in a fatal truck rollover case last year told a Georgia judge Monday the court should reject Ford's efforts to halt the allocation of attorney fees, arguing the company's purported intent to appeal isn't enough to stop the proceedings. A family who secured a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co.

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APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. A Georgia appellate court recently affirmed that decision.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite palpable anxiety over the racial makeup of the 12 individuals who will decide the fate of 3 men held responsible for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in a suburban Georgia neighborhood in February 2020, the jury selected will consist of 11 white people and only 1 Black person, reports the New York Times.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2022

Share In a 5-4 decision made on Monday, the Supreme Court held that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review factual findings made by the executive branch during deportation proceedings. citizen” even though he was eligible for a driver’s license under Georgia law despite not being a U.S. No court may even hear the case.

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Law 360

MARCH 8, 2023

A Georgia federal judge ordered Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP to pull from a Tennessee court its case against co-lead counsel in Equifax multidistrict litigation, challenging its share of $77.5 million in attorney fees, saying Wednesday it was an attempt to "usurp" his authority.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Friday marks 50 years since the Supreme Court’s 6-1 opinion in People v. Credit goes to appellate attorney Bob Bacon for alerting me to the anniversary.) Anderson was the work of the Wright court. ” The court said that “[j]udgments of the nineteenth century as to what constitutes cruelty cannot bind us.”

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2021

A Georgia appeals court recently allowed a plaintiff to depose General Motors' CEO, in a blow to the apex doctrine's protections for high-ranking executives, but measures before and during discovery can reduce corporate leaders' exposure in such cases, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2022

The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were Friday sentenced to life in prison by a Georgia superior court judge. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed in February 2020 by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan, who pursued Arbery in their pickup truck and shot him multiple times.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

Fifteen months earlier (June 18, 2021), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Hope v. The decision by the Fifth Circuit ran against the grain of at least five other federal circuit courts of appeals which have held that, under certain circumstances, solitary confinement can create an Eighth Amendment violation. Sinclair v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral argument in Patel v. Garland , an immigration case that raises a question about federal court review for noncitizens who were denied certain types of discretionary relief. citizen” when applying for a Georgia driver’s license. In 2008, Patel marked “U.S. Cyr , a 2001 case.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2021

A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday questioned how an attorney can make representations to the court and answer interrogatories on behalf of clients in a personal injury suit if he's never met the people he's representing.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Defense counsel for a Georgia travel booking business that, along with its president, is accused of underpaying a co-owner said he had no excuse Friday for his clients' failure to unearth financial documents, prompting a state court judge to ask the attorney, "What the heck are you doing?"

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