Cedra Mayfield

April 18, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"These 25 sustained complaints by the [Atlanta Citizen Review Board] were not sufficient to establish that APD had a policy or custom of undertraining its officers for purposes of § 1983 liability," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit opinion read.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 15, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"I think it's a good decision for premises owners and people who operate businesses who accurately report a crime to a police officer, [that] you're not liable for it," said Thomas C. Grant of Freed Grant in Atlanta. "Hopefully this won't shield people from making complaints to police about suspected crimes."

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

April 15, 2022 | Law.com

"I'm 5'10. Skirts are rarely long enough to cover my knees," tweeted an Indiana attorney by the Twitter handle @AnxietyAtLaw. "How does the fact that my knees are visible have any impact on my [presence] in a courtroom?? Answer: IT DOESN'T."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"He had never worked pedestrian safety before," argued Douglas C. Dumont of Ausband & Dumont in Stockbridge. "He had no training in traffic control."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

April 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This settlement should improve the lives of people with serious mental illness who are held in the South Fulton Jail," said Atteeyah Hollie of the Southern Center for Human Rights. "To avoid needless suffering, we must combat our impulse to charge and jail the mentally ill."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Laws like this don't make communities safer," said Democratic Georgia Attorney General candidate Christian Wise Smith. "In fact, they make it more dangerous for Black and brown communities—and we need to push back."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

April 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"You'd think that Texas prosecutors would've checked the law before charging Lizelle Herrera with murder," tweeted attorney Huwaida Arraf. "Although charges were dropped, Herrera spent 2 nights in jail, and the precedent is chilling."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Had the deed been signed only a few weeks earlier, it would have been completely valid," read a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruling. "At that time Georgia law permitted deeds to be either attested by or acknowledged before an official."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 11, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The judge is set to retire July 1.

By Cedra Mayfield

2 minute read

April 08, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"An [Arkansas] Senator attempting to associate a Black SCOTUS nominee with a rise in dangerous crime is also a page from the confirmation hearing for Thurgood Marshall 54 years ago," tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president and director-counsel emeritus.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read