Cedra Mayfield

May 18, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This round of awards completes the funding opportunities through the Judicial Council program for calendar year 2022," said Supreme Court of Georgia Presiding Justice Michael P. Boggs. "We are pleased to have provided these resources to 42 of the 50 judicial circuits in the state."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

May 17, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"There was no regulation. There was no ordinance. There was no statute. There was no expert," argued appellee attorney Bernard F. Kistler Jr. of Peachtree Corners. "Nothing to say that what my client did was wrong. Nothing to say that that door was not acceptable."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

May 16, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Protesting outside of a Justice's home in an effort to intimidate, influence or undermine our judicial system is a clear violation of federal statute, and it is time that the U.S. Attorney General takes decisive action to uphold the rule of law," said Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr in a statement.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

May 16, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We will provide additional updates as information becomes available, but at least every Friday until the network and website are restored," read an update by the State Bar of Georgia.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

May 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Dewberry Group continuously disregarded Dewberry Engineers' trademark and contractual rights," wrote a federal judge before awarding roughly $43 million in damages and attorney fees. "[The defendant] "brazenly rolled out and used four separate infringing marks and sought federal trademarks for them."

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

May 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Experience matters. It matters to lawyers. It matters to residents. As we have seen in back to back financial periods, it matters to donors, and I believe it will matter to voters," said the challenger, Fulton County Juvenile Court Associate Judge Shalanda Miller.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

May 11, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The question isn't really, 'Should you put it back where it came from?'" argued appellant counsel David Hanson of the Weathington Firm in Atlanta. "The question is, 'How do you determine where it goes?'"

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

May 10, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The creation of this board is unconstitutional, [and] it should be disbanded immediately," tweeted Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

May 10, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The trial court erred in concluding that because Officer Graw initiated the traffic stop of [the driver's] vehicle outside the Kingsland city limits, she had no jurisdiction and, thus, was not engaged in the lawful discharge of her official duties at the time of the search and subsequent arrest," read the Georgia Court of Appeals ruling.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

May 09, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Pointing to an absence of evidence that either [the employee] or the county could have foreseen [the employee's] seizure and sudden loss of consciousness on the day of the accident, the county 'established a prima facie case in support of [its] affirmative defense of an 'act of God,'" the Georgia Court of Appeals opinion read.

By Cedra Mayfield

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