Katheryn Hayes Tucker

August 31, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A crowd gathered in the rain Thursday morning to break ground for the $122 million Georgia Judicial Complex near the State Capitol.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

August 31, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A day after he announced his support of a 23-state coalition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Ten Commandments display on First Amendment grounds, Georgia General Chris Carr said Thursday he has joined a 21-state coalition defending the rights of gun owners under the Second Amendment.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

2 minute read

August 30, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Wednesday he has joined a coalition of states in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Bloomfield, New Mexico's right to display a Ten Commandments monument on its city hall lawn.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

August 29, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A medical malpractice defense attorney mainly representing doctors insured by MagMutual has handled some personal injury cases for plaintiffs over his 18 years of practice, but all of them settled—until this month, when he tried a car wreck case in Troup County Superior Court before Judge Jack Kirby. The result: a $2 million verdict for a two-and-a-half day trial. The jury deliberated for 15 minutes.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

August 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

After three-and-a-half years of litigating, the Henry County Board of Education will have to take another look at its decision to expel a student for fighting and consider her claims of self-defense.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

10 minute read

August 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

U.S. Attorney John Horn announces a second screening of a 45-minute documentary he calls "our movie"—"Released: When Does the Sentence End?" Horn's office commissioned the film.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

August 24, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The crowd that packed the Rialto theater Wednesday morning gave Gov. Nathan Deal a standing ovation before he made it to the stage. U.S. Attorney John Horn had to interrupt to finish introducing him. Both appeared in the movie that premiered there—"Released: When Does the Sentence End?"—along with a cast of convicted felons and business, clergy and nonprofit leaders working to help inmates prepare for jobs when they return to private life.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

7 minute read

August 23, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The diverse group of Dallas lawyers who came out with a forceful denunciation of white supremacy and antisemitism within days of the violence in Charlottesville had actually been talking about their concerns much longer.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

August 23, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Former Gov. Roy Barnes, a Marietta attorney, has written a four-page essay titled, "Charlottesville and Confederate Memorials" and posted it on his law firm's Facebook page.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

2 minute read

August 22, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Friends, family and most of the local bench gathered to remember retired Superior Court Judge Dorothy Robinson for a Monday evening rosary service at Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home in Marietta. Robinson, 79, of Marietta died Aug. 16 at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read