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Katheryn Hayes Tucker

Katheryn Hayes Tucker

Katheryn Hayes Tucker is an Atlanta-based reporter covering legal news for the Daily Report and other ALM publications.

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April 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online

No Matter What SCOTUS Does, Georgia's Water War With Florida Is Not Over

A legal dispute over water use now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court reveals that Georgia has a dirty little secret.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

April 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers Turn to Tweets to Pin Down Uber

Two Atlanta attorneys have taken to social media to try to flag down Uber.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

March 31, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Ken Hodges Plans Run for Appeals Court Judgeship

Trial lawyer and former prosecutor Kenneth Hodges III—who became known around the state with a hard-fought, but unsuccessful, campaign for attorney general—has announced plans to run for an open seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2018.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

March 30, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Media Gag Order Sparks Courtroom Showdown in Small-Town Georgia

S. Derek Bauer of Baker Hostetler said First Amendment cases are a passion of his as he prepares for another gag order fight in Ocilla.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

10 minute read

March 28, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Nashville Judge's Federal Corruption Case Alleges Sex With Defendants, Bribery

A Tennessee judge's text messages tell the tale in a federal indictment accusing him of trading justice for sex.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

March 27, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Meet the Litigator Who Saved a Law Firm from Sanctions and Shame

The lawyer who won the reversal of nearly $600,000 in legal fees and a damaging federal judge's order is a second-generation Alabama Supreme Court justice with the smooth drawl of Southern gentry, the kind with soft "r" sounds.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

14 minute read

March 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Verdict Against Company in Employee's Crash Upheld

A $12 million verdict upheld this week in New York County Supreme Court holds a health center liable for the injuries of a pedestrian struck by one of its employees running a company errand.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

March 22, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Voting Rights Advocates Vow to Continue Fight Against Kemp Despite Dismissal

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is cheering a federal judge's dismissal of a voting rights lawsuit filed against him by the Georgia NAACP and Common Cause, but his opponents say he's celebrating too soon.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

March 14, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Rejected LGBT Bias Case in 11th Circuit Could Be Revived

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may not be finished with the question of whether a person can be terminated from a job because of sexual orientation and style of dress, despite upholding the dismissal of the case on Friday.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

7 minute read

March 13, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Judge Quits Waffle House Chairman's Sex Video Case

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Rob Leonard has recused himself from a web of litigation over a secretly recorded sex video with the chairman of Waffle House, issuing a blistering order accusing a lawyer of lies an unethical conduct.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

7 minute read