Katheryn Tucker

November 16, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The solution comes down to this: teach people to do more without a lawyer.

By Katheryn Tucker

5 minute read

November 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

“Justice is going to be best served when everyone understands it,” said Jana J. Edmondson-Cooper, a bilingual trial lawyer and member of the Supreme Court Commission on Interpreters.

By Katheryn Tucker

3 minute read

November 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

“Nude dancing is a form of free speech protected by the Georgia and United States Constitutions,” the club execs say in a lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court Friday.

By Katheryn Tucker

2 minute read

November 10, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Alicia Coleman, had been employed through a job training and employment agency in Fort Benning, Georgia as a 911 operator, a job she had held for nearly a decade. She alleged that she was terminated in 2016 after her period came on unexpectedly while at work

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

November 10, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A panel of three – at least two of whom admitted to being dog owners during oral arguments and one of whom has a dog with a Twitter following – reversed a trial court judge and said the case should go to a jury.

By Katheryn Tucker

7 minute read

November 10, 2017 | Daily Report Online

“Charlie Peeler will help enforce and carry out our nation's laws with skill and dignity,” Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said in a news release Thursday evening.

By Katheryn Tucker

5 minute read

November 10, 2017 | Daily Report Online

In a footnote, Chief Judge Stephen Dillard cited a paper Justice Keith Blackwell wrote 20 years ago as a law student in which Blackwell said the Georgia Supreme Court—of which he is now a member—may have "misconstrued" the law.

By Katheryn Tucker

7 minute read

November 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

They might not be the kind of judges most people think of as heading traffic court. The 20 who took three days of classes on the law governing field sobriety tests and other types of evidence were not state court traffic judges. They are probate judges.

By Katheryn Tucker

8 minute read

November 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Before Gov. Nathan Deal nominated Judge Charlie Bethel to the bench nearly a year ago, he was a state senator. So it was with a different perspective that he opined the majority's decision was not what the General Assembly had in mind with exceptions to the licensing requirement.

By Katheryn Tucker

3 minute read

November 08, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Georgia State University law school professor Tanya Washington and Emory University law school professor Barbara Woodhouse speak of the constitutional rights of children to be free from discrimination in an amicus they co-authored.

By Katheryn Tucker

2 minute read