February 05, 2024 | Daily Report Online
EV Plant Construction Appeal Could Go to Ga. Supreme CourtCounsel for the state said they do not yet know if they will seek certiorari.
By Alex Anteau
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February 02, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Who Pays? Milledgeville Asylum's Fire Dept in Flux After State Pulled Out of Funding ContractIn November 2023, the Georgia Recorder reported that the lawsuit underlying appeal is a likely catalyst for the scheduled demolition of three buildings on the hospital campus.
By Alex Anteau
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February 01, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Judge Pay Parity One Step Closer to Reality as Bill Clears Cmte. Hurdle"During my time as judge, there had been a 16-year gap before there was a pay rate increase," said Representative Stan Gunter, R-Blairsville, as the legislation was put to a vote. "Hopefully this bill will take care of that situation."
By Alex Anteau
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January 31, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Legislature Mulls Name Change for Stone Mountain Judicial CircuitPublic confusion between the courthouses in Decatur and Stone Mountain was cited as the reason for the change.
By Alex Anteau
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January 30, 2024 | National Law Journal
Expect More Patent Filings After a Decade-Long Low, Say Baker Hostetler IP Practice LeadersThe most common rationale for the dearth of patent filings has been "the economy," however, the report also notes jurisdictional changes may be a cause.
By Alex Anteau
5 minute read
January 29, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Rights Groups Map Strategy as Bills Targeting LGBTQ Citizens Proliferate in US Statehouses"We've found that the Georgia legislature implements a particular strategy of weaponizing parental rights as a pretext to infringe on the rights of young trans people in the state," said ACLU First Amendment Policy Director Sarah Hunt-Blackwell.
By Alex Anteau
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January 26, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Ga. Appellate Panel Appears Hesitant to Reverse Custody Ruling Over Equitable Caregiver StatuteAccording to the appellee seeking custody, "The very reason that he was forced to prosecute his Petition against [the appellant] was due to [his] abuse of his role as a Georgia licensed attorney and the reliance placed in him by [the appellee]."
By Alex Anteau
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January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online
'Or They Could Have Fired Deloitte': Embattled CFO Appeals Case, Arguing Auditor Pressed Company Into Firing Him"The evidence is there that she was angry about the shifting responsibilities from her to [the plaintiff] and that could be a motive to destroy his career," said plaintiff-appellant counsel Randolph Mayer.
By Alex Anteau
5 minute read
January 24, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Why Lawyers Will Survive the Onset of Generative AI—and How They'll Affect Who Won'tIf user inputs are used to train models such as ChatGPT, can lawyers input their clients confidential information when generating motions, briefs or patent applications? How does scraped data used to train AI co-exist with the right to be forgotten? And when it comes to filing patents and copyrights for works produced by AI, who owns it?
By Alex Anteau
4 minute read
January 23, 2024 | National Law Journal
Why 13 Trademark Infringement Lawsuits, With Hundreds of Defendants, Were Dismissed in Chicago"Finally someone is holding [the plaintiffs'] feet to the fire," said Cory Jay Rosenbaum of Long Island law firm Rosenbaum Famularo & Segall.
By Alex Anteau
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