January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Lawmakers Pass Bill to Define Antisemitism Despite Opponents' Free Speech ConcernsSponsors say adopting the definition put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people. Gov. Brian Kemp has said he will sign the legislation.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Eleventh Circuit Sets March Court Date to Hear Ahmaud Arbery's Killers' Appeals of Their Hate Crime ConvictionsArbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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January 24, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Secretary of State Says It's Unconstitutional for Board to Oversee Him, but Lawmakers DifferCharlene McGowan, Raffensperger's general counsel. "Giving a board of unelected bureaucrats unchecked power over the state's executive branch is a dangerous policy proposal."
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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January 24, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Lawmakers Advance Bill to Revive Disciplinary Commission for State ProsecutorsThough Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation last year creating the new commission, it was unable to begin operating after the state Supreme Court in November refused to approve rules governing its conduct.
By Sudhin Thanawala and Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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January 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Testy Encounters Between Lawyers and Judges a Defining Feature of Trump's Court Cases so FarFormer President Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from a courtroom last week by a judge angry over the former president's behavior in a defamation…
By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael R. Sisak | The Associated Press
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January 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Bill to Define Antisemitism in State Law Advances in Georgia After Stalling in 2023What was already a fraught topic has become downright raw with the Israel-Hamas war. Some protesters chanting "Free Free Palestine!" were dragged from the Judiciary Committee room by police officers after the vote.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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January 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Cobb Judge Orders Unsealing of Divorce Case Involving Georgia Special Prosecutor Accused of Affair With Fulton DAJoycelyn Wade's attorney has filed court documents showing Nathan Wade bought plane tickets in Fulton County DA Fani Willis' name, arguing there "appears to be no reasonable explanation for their travels apart from a romantic relationship."
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press
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January 19, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Lawyer Hired to Prosecute Trump in Georgia Is Thrust Into the Spotlight Over Affair ClaimsIt's not the first time Wade's qualifications have been challenged.
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press
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January 19, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Legal Community Mourns Loss of James ElliottThe former state bar president and Emory Law professor emeritus led initiatives to improve access to justice in Georgia and to promote ethics, integrity and public service within the legal profession, including co-founding the Georgia Legal Services Program and the state's mandatory Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program.
By J. Antonio "Tony" DelCampo
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January 18, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Family of Atlanta Church Deacon Who Died After Struggle With Police Officer Files LawsuitAn attorney for the family said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit that Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, Mayor Andrew Dickens and other city officials were also responsible for Hollman's death.
By Sudhin Thanawala | The Associated Press
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