Katheryn Hayes Tucker

April 27, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We are finally realizing that locking someone up for 30 years for selling an ounce of weed doesn't make a lot of sense, either from a retributive justice side or a restorative justice side," said Atlanta lawyer Robin Frazer Clark, a former president of the State Bar of Georgia and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

April 15, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Cobb County Superior Court has two vacancies created by the planned resignations of Judges C. LaTain Kell and Mary Staley Clark.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

2 minute read

April 15, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rachelle Carnesale noted Northside's breach-of-contract claims center around the meaning of "public health emergency" in a new law passed by the General Assembly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

April 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Judge Robert Flournoy III is leaving his job open in the May election – which will include five qualified candidates. Contemporaries on his bench and others in the state have timed their retirements so that Gov. Brian Kemp has the opportunity to appoint their successors.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read

April 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"It is extremely foreseeable that minors and young adults would use the Speed Filter to record themselves driving at excessive speeds, and even more so if there are potential reward 'trophies' for so doing," District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald of the Central District of California said. Fitzgerald denied Snap's motion to dismiss a California lawsuit running parallel to one in Georgia.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

April 11, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Mark Meliski, John Bevis and former Gov. Roy Barnes of the Barnes Law Group represented the surviving husband. The jury award went against against Preferred Women's Healthcare in Gwinnett and its doctors.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

April 08, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Michael Rust and Nicole Leet of Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett & Brieske won summary judgment for QuikTrip in a premises liability lawsuit over a shooting during a carjacking attempt. Plaintiffs attorneys said they will appeal the case to the Eleventh Circuit.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

4 minute read

April 07, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Alabama Aircraft has appealed the decision restricting the verdict., while Boeing is cross appealing a ruling sanctioning the aircraft maker with a jury guidance regarding a breach of the implied promise of good faith and fair dealing.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

5 minute read

April 05, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Kemp named Stacey Jackson of Hagler Jackson & Walters as Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit DA, and Pythias "Pete" Temesgen of Huff Powell Bailey to the State Court of Muscogee County.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

2 minute read

April 05, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Plaintiffs attorney Lance Cooper said in a statement that it was his first jury trial since the COVID-19 pandemic, adding, "It was good to get back in the courtroom and obtain justice on behalf of our clients."

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

3 minute read