Katheryn Hayes Tucker

May 19, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Civil rights attorneys have sued the city of LaGrange, Georgia, alleging discriminatory practices that deprive the homes of African-Americans and Latinos to basic utility services.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

May 19, 2017 | Daily Report Online

In a closely-watched fight between an insurance company and its policyholders over uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, GEICO's counsel wants the limit set at $25,000, but for now the courts have sided with the customers' argument that it should be $100,000.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

10 minute read

May 18, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for environmental activists are cheering a federal judge's ruling transferring a logging company's lawsuit from Georgia to California, where they expect to find a friendlier venue.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

May 17, 2017 | Daily Report Online

American Bar Association president Linda Klein, senior managing shareholder at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Atlanta, used declining revenue, increasing need and the words of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to urge the U.S. Senate to continue funding legal aid.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

10 minute read

May 17, 2017 | Daily Report Online

For the past few days, judges have debated a novel—although ultimately unsuccessful —argument against lethal injection posed by a Georgia death row inmate who asked to be put before a firing squad instead.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

10 minute read

May 16, 2017 | Daily Business Review

WestRock, an Atlanta-based paper and packaging company, cannot avoid making shortfall contributions to a pension fund in a "dire financial condition," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

9 minute read

May 16, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed a conviction for a sex offender because of what Justice Robert Benham called a flawed indictment.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

8 minute read

May 16, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Supreme Court delivered some good news Monday for Uber, Lyft and other ride sharing companies, tossing a lawsuit brought by cabbies seeking to block the competition.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

May 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A man facing the death penalty has won a challenge to the way Fulton County picks juries. The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Fulton County is violating the high court's Jury Composition Rule, agreeing with Otis Ricks Jr., who is accused of murdering a restaurant owner during an armed robbery.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

7 minute read

May 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a student who posted on Facebook about taking an assault rifle to school cannot find protection in the Constitution.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read