Katheryn Hayes Tucker

May 09, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The 11th Circuit still has to rule on the injunction blocking the abortion ban," said Sean J. Young , former legal director of American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. "Georgia's abortion ban remains blocked until the Eleventh Circuit says otherwise."

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

May 06, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Ultimately, I went the civil route. But there was always a part of me that wished I had been a criminal defense lawyer," said Sean J. Young, who is leaving his job as legal director of the ACLU of Georgia.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

May 05, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Susan Coppedge was one of the first federal prosecutors to bring a sex trafficking case in Georgia. Her resume includes secured indictments of 49 human traffickers in cases involving domestic and international sex trafficking and labor trafficking.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

May 05, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Render Freeman and Brittany Partridge of Andersen, Tate & Carr tried the case for the widow of an orthodontist and weekend motocross rider killed by a fallen tree.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

May 03, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Justice Carla Wong McMillian ruled a district attorney's closing argument was "highly prejudicial and referred to matters not in evidence."

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

May 03, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Legal Services Program depends on federal funding through the Legal Services Corp. as well as private donations. The Georgia group is planning to host a 50th anniversary fundraising dinner Thursday at the Foundry at Puritan Mill with Georgia Supreme Court Justice Verda Colvin as the keynote speaker.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

May 02, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This office has a long tradition of working closely with our law enforcement and community partners, the defense bar, and the court in serving this district. I look forward to maintaining and strengthening those relationships," said the new U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

May 02, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Senior Judge Herbert Phipps—joined by Judges Sara Doyle and Clyde Reese—reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to the defense on the claim of negligent credentialing of a nurse anesthetist with a disciplinary record.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

April 29, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We went from filing the case to being ready for trial in a year. That is a tremendous benefit for business litigants to not be languishing in the court," said one litigator. So why is it the state's most underused court?

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

April 28, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Cozen O'Connor insurance defense litigators Michael Melendez of San Francisco and Chad Pasternack of West Palm Beach, Florida, offered takeaways from select cases last year.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read