Katheryn Tucker

June 28, 2018 | Daily Report Online

“When the new justices are being selected for the Georgia Supreme Court—unless we're willing, in this day and age, to once again accept an all-male court, which is predominantly white, that neither reflects the diversity of the population served nor that of the legal profession itself—diversity must be a priority rather than an afterthought,” —Former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears

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June 27, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The speculation about his replacement started about a minute after Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, announced his retirement Wednesday.

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June 27, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The Judicial Council of Georgia Standing Committee on Grants announced Wednesday the award of about $2.5 million to legal aid groups around the state for low-income victims of domestic violence and their children.

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June 27, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The CEASE clinic reports that only one case has been tried to verdicts under the Hidden Predator Act's briefly open window: The award was small, but the sense of justice for the survivor was big.

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June 26, 2018 | Daily Report Online

This is a case about cotton. B.B. King once called cotton "a force of nature"—"[t]here's a poetry to it," he wrote, "'hoeing and growing cotton,'” Judge Kevin Newsom said. “Here, the poetry of the hoeing and growing has given way to a nasty little feud over the selling.”

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June 26, 2018 | Daily Business Review

This is a case about cotton in the Deep South. B.B. King once called cotton "a force of nature." But Judge Kevin Newsom said the poetry of cotton "has given way to a nasty little feud."

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June 25, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Chief Justice Harris Hines with Justices Keith Blackwell and Nels Peterson surprised Joel Wooten with a resolution saying he "can be counted on to get the job done" and "never calls attention to himself.”

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June 22, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that Jacksonville-based Healogics Inc. has agreed to pay up to $22.51 million to settle allegations…

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June 20, 2018 | Daily Business Review

“The court disagrees and finds that this case is not moot. Hooters' assurance to an unrelated third party to remediate its website does not alone moot Haynes' claims for relief.”—District Court Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia

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June 19, 2018 | National Law Journal

Judge Brett Kavanaugh took a dispute that involved more than 10,000 documents and dispatched it in a simple seven page order affirming the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in holding that a company does not have to surrender certain requested files to the Federal Trade Commission.

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