Mondaq

AUGUST 12, 2022

Knowing the requirements and limitations of Georgia magistrate courts is important to understanding when litigating in multiple courts.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 29, 2021

The ERC Building EU Civil Justice team in Rotterdam is running a series of seminars , covering a variety of topics in the field of European civil justice and international litigation. On Thursday 1 July, 16-18 hrs CET , the webinar is dedicated to the topic R epresenting Future Generations: Private Law aspects of Climate Change Litigation.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The prospective class action alleges that Georgia leaves inmates in dilapidated solitary confinement cells for months at a time.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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

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LegalReader

JULY 1, 2022

appeals court recently ruled that a discrimination lawsuit against Georgia Pacific LLC. can proceed.

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LegalReader

APRIL 3, 2021

The Supreme Court recently sided with the state of Georgia over a 2013 lawsuit filed by Florida.

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Law 360

MARCH 13, 2024

A Georgia Court of Appeals panel has rejected Walmart's attempt to cut three-quarters of a $300,000 award to a customer who was seriously injured after slipping in one of its stores, ruling new information that surfaced during litigation overrode a federal order limiting damage recovery in the case.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

The Supreme Court recently gave the go ahead for a Georgia Govinnet College student to pursue a free speech lawsuit.

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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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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2022

wants a Georgia federal court to hand down harsh sanctions including a contempt order and referral for criminal charges, claiming a former employee "infamous" for filing frivolous lawsuits is the "puppeteer" behind separate plaintiff's discrimination cases against the air carrier. Delta Air Lines Inc.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 23, 2022

As a young personal injury litigator in Georgia, Gino Brogdon Jr. says he was accustomed to using different technology tools to manage his practice. But…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This is not the only litigation involving the VRA. Last month, a judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordere d Georgia’s General Assembly to redraw the state’s enacted Congressional Districts after finding the districts violated the VRA.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2021

Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. In 2016, Chike Uzuegbunam, an Evangelical Christian, attempted to express and share his faith on the Georgia Gwinnett College Campus by standing near the campus library and passing out literature. The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2023

has asked the Georgia federal judge who oversaw the multidistrict litigation to allow its challenge of co-lead counsel's $77.5 A law firm that helped class representatives win a landmark $425 million data breach deal from Equifax Inc. million fee allocation to proceed in a Tennessee court.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Warnock and his allies claim that a state law prohibiting elections immediately after public holidays could disenfranchise thousands of voters.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has added 46 associates to its ranks — including to its offices in Georgia, Florida and Washington, D.C. strengthening multiple groups such as its business litigation and corporate practices.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 26, 2022

The lawsuit claims that immigrants who refuse to work for wages between $1 and $4 per day are threatened with solitary detention.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Knowing the law can help you proceed with confidence in the aftermath of your car wreck.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 7, 2022

The owner of A Ok Walker Autoworks--who posted several statements to his website, in which he insulted the former employee's intelligence and character--is now being sued for wrongfully withholding Andreas Flaten's final paycheck, illegally taking other workers' overtime pay, and failing to keep pay receipts and other work records.

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Law 360

AUGUST 31, 2023

As it seeks a new trial for a $200 million trade secret theft suit, Alcoa is also asking a Georgia federal judge to rule in its favor on counterclaims of sham litigation that rival Universal Alloy Corp. filed against it, saying the counterclaims are themselves frivolous.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2023

in litigation over a fatal rollover are appealing a Georgia state judge's sanctions that preceded a second trial and record-setting $1.7 Attorneys from firms including Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons LLP who defended Ford Motor Co.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Guards allegedly laughed after another inmate informed them that Jenna Mitchell had committed suicide in her cell.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The former nurse who alleged serious medical abuse at the now-closed LaSalle Corrections immigration jail facility in Ocilla, Georgia has filed suit against her former employer for retaliating against her for blowing the whistle on the private prison company, Lautaro Grinspan reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Law 360

JULY 18, 2023

The Chinese manufacturer of the popular "Elfbar" disposable vape has asked a Georgia federal judge to block U.S.-based based VPR Brands LP from selling "low-quality" "knockoffs" of its e-cigarettes, in a filing that echoes claims the firm has made in the larger ongoing "Elf" litigation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The case is the newest piece of litigation over tribal sovereignty following the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision, which held that the US Congress had never dissolved the reservations of the so-called “Five-Civilized Tribes,” including the Creek Nation, despite the incorporation of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

1983 ; they are not forced into federal habeas litigation that is procedurally doomed. The Heck bar is a big deal to death-sentenced prisoners who challenge execution methods, because those challenges almost always ripen after the first round of federal habeas litigation finishes.

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

If a state prisoner must use habeas litigation, then federal courts will almost never reach the merits of the claim. Georgia wants the court to prohibit the Section 1983 litigation, but the state seemed to have a formidable skeptic: Justice Brett Kavanaugh. First, some background on the case.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Demetrius Hollins was beaten and kicked for trying to record an officer during a traffic stop.

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LegalReader

APRIL 27, 2022

Economic damages are the costs of any medical treatment, lost wages, and injury rehabilitation.

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LegalReader

JULY 27, 2022

The reconstruction expert can use evidence like the state of the two vehicles, tire marks, and details about the physical location of the crash to reconstruct the scene and show us how the accident likely played out.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that a kratom retailer failed to warn consumers, including the deceased 23-year-old, that its products could be dangerous.

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