SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a Black man sentenced to death in Georgia after the state sought to strike all but one eligible Black juror can satisfy the heightened standard to challenge his conviction. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld that decision.

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HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2021

“Georgia Supreme Court to resume in-person oral arguments”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article that begins, “Beginning next month, attorneys arguing before the Georgia Supreme Court will no longer have to worry if their mute button is turned off or on (or if they look like a cat).”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Georgia , a case about water rights between the two neighboring states. After hearing Monday’s argument, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Georgia will be required to curb its own water use to allow more water to flow into Florida. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for the second time in Florida v.

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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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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A former corrections officer at a private prison in Georgia has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and three years under supervision for accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to “[turn] a blind eye” to smuggling and contraband in the federal facility, the Southern District of Georgia USAO announced Wednesday.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Attorneys for a former Georgia insurance commissioner who was indicted over his suspected involvement in a health care kickback scheme told a Georgia federal judge on Wednesday that statements he made to investigators in 2020 must be suppressed because they were improperly obtained.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday held that Georgia’s abortion law can take effect immediately. The Georgia law bans abortions when fetal cardiac activity is detected, as early as six weeks. Georgia recently appealed the district court decision in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A district attorney in Georgia was indicted Tuesday based on accusations that he offered $1,000 bribes to two prosecutors and tried to influence a police…

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Mondaq

MAY 5, 2022

Regardless of age or financial status, everyone can benefit from having a power of attorney. A Georgia Statutory Power of Attorney allows you to name someone you trust as the manager of your finances.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2024

Attorneys for an arena football league missed their shot Friday evening at blocking one of its former teams from playing in a rival league's opening weekend, after a series of housekeeping oversights ended with a Georgia federal judge denying their bid for a preliminary injunction.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A Georgia district attorney accused of offering to pay $1,000 to two staff prosecutors pleaded guilty during jury deliberations in his trial Monday. Mark…

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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. Department of Justice and the Georgia legislature, which have announced investigations into the troubled facility in recent months.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia deputy attorney general John Fowler alleges that the diary of an environmental activist police shot and killed earlier this year is needed to prove that 61 defendants tied to opposition against a training center near Atlanta, known as “Cop City”, were involved in a criminal conspiracy, Timothy Pratt reports for The Guardian.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Maybe Georgia Shouldn't Be So Gleeful Over Wrongful Imprisonment: Seriously, it's a bad look. This Judge Doesn't Seem Happy With Unmasked Attorneys: Which, fair enough. Yeah, Don't Sleep With Your Clients: A lesson this partner is learning the hard way. This Isn't Your Typical Murder Story: Cue the side eye. .

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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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Buck Aldridge, the Camden County, Georgia sheriff’s deputy who recently fatally shot Leonard Cure, a Black man, at point-blank range during a traffic stop, has a history of excessive and violent behavior during similar stops, Russ Bynum reports for the Associated Press. Aldridge’s attorney said the video shows he fired in self-defense.

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Law 360

MAY 7, 2024

A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday denied successive efforts from a lender to wrest control of the assets of an Atlanta-area golf club owner, whom attorneys for the lender describe as a "serial fraudster" likely to abscond with his assets while still owing millions on a 2023 loan.

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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 8, 2021

Georgia businesses will have another year of legal protection from COVID-19 liability lawsuits, new opportunities to reach endorsement deals with college athletes and shored-up infrastructure under bills passed by the state General Assembly in its spring session.

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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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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A district attorney in Paulding County, Georgia, has been charged with bribery for allegedly dropping charges against the client of a prosecutor in a neighboring…

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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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LegalReader

JUNE 7, 2022

If your Georgia car accident lawsuit takes longer than you anticipated, don’t give in.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 23, 2022

Attorneys for some female inmates said they found cells covered in urine and feces. Fulton County's new sheriff has since pledged to drastically better inmates' living conditions.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Following almost nine years of litigation, Georgia manufacturer Universal Alloy Corp. Here, UAC's lead trial attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP reveal to Law360 how they did it. defeated at trial allegations it stole Alcoa's trade secrets and a $200 million contract with Boeing for aircraft wing parts.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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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. Georgia has one official code, the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (the “OCGA”), which includes the text of every Georgia statute currently in force. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v.

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Mondaq

MARCH 8, 2022

In late January, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr reached a settlement with Rent-A-Center regarding a variety of alleged deceptive practices in its rent-to-own business, including in its debt collection.

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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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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. Arbery was unarmed. The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Car accident claims are often fraught with legal complexities, and plaintiffs might have a hard time coping as they might still be recovering from their injuries.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 3, 2023

Reuters ] * Georgia district attorneys are suing over a new law giving the state the power to remove the elected officials over discretionary decisions. Women's National Team in the World Cup. National Law Journal ] * 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman wrote a pointed dissent amid questions of her competency.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

A US federal grand jury indicted the three Georgia men Wednesday charged with “federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping” in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested the McMichaels days after video footage surfaced showing the men following and cornering Arbery in pickup trucks.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

Attorney General of Georgia Chris Carr joined 19 other attorneys to urge the Supreme Court to stop the memorandum from taking effect. Carr said : Enough is enough – by continuing to ignore the law and the facts at hand, this administration has put our safety and security at risk.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

She started her legal career as a legal assistant and then worked for several years as a paralegal at Georgia Pacific. While working there, she chose to take the path from paralegal to lawyer and attended the part-time law school program at Georgia State University. I don’t know the answer.

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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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LegalReader

AUGUST 11, 2021

Truck accident cases are complicated, but you may be entitled to more compensation than what the insurance company offers you.

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