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Katheryn Tucker

Katheryn Tucker

September 16, 2021 | Law.com

How Lawyers Found a Home for $142M in Leftover Class Action Funds

"This is the end of a really long running case whose chief aim was to compensate women who were subjected to a very misleading marketing campaign," Beasley Allen's David Byrne told Law.com on Wednesday. "These products were sold to all women as this fountain of youth pill with claimed but unproven benefits."

By Katheryn Tucker

5 minute read

September 10, 2021 | Daily Report Online

How Plaintiffs Lawyers Reached a $4M Settlement for a Motorcycle Wreck

"We strategically sent a post-suit demand and a separate O.C.G.A. § 9-11-68 Offer of Settlement for the same amount—$4 million, the entire policy limit," said Darren Tobin of Tobin Injury Law, who handled the case with Randy Fry of the Fry Law Firm.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

September 09, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Ga. Supreme Court Names New JQC Commissioner

"Judge Darrisaw's experience as a judge and lawyer, as well as her commitment to civic virtue, make her an ideal candidate to carry out the JQC's work," Chief Justice David E. Nahmias said.

By Katheryn Tucker

3 minute read

September 09, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Divided Eleventh Circuit Rules Officer Justified in Firing 21 Shots Into Car After High-Speed Chase

"I worry that it sets a dangerous standard for police use of force," said Judge Jill Pryor in her dissenting opinion. "The record belies the dissent's rose-colored narrative," Judge William Pryor said in the majority opinion.

By Katheryn Tucker

6 minute read

September 09, 2021 | Law.com

Prosecutor's 'Highly Improper' Closing Leads to Reversal—28 Years Later

"Reviewing this closing, even twenty-five years later and on the cold record, leaves us with no doubt of its power," said Judge Julius Richardson. "For the same reason it was powerful, it was highly improper."

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

September 09, 2021 | Law.com

21 AGs Weigh In at 4th Circuit Against Another Abortion Ban

"We are witnessing a cruel and relentless attack on a woman's right to choose," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said Wednesday. "This South Carolina law is just the latest."

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

September 07, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Lawyer: Texas Abortion Ban Made 'a Hole Through Which a State Can Drive a Truck'

"What Texas did is a really cynical way of trying to take a law and engineer it so that it's intentionally immunized from judicial review when it's otherwise patently unconstitutional," said attorney David F. Walbert, co-author of "Whose Choice is It? Abortion, Medicine and the Law."

By Katheryn Tucker

5 minute read

September 03, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Eleventh Circuit Judges Give Postage Paid Ballots a Hard 'No' and Then a 'Whoa'

A judge not on the panel took exception to an opinion that included this language: "We note that the Plaintiffs' claims border on the frivolous. At this time, however, we are not imposing sanctions." More to come.

By Katheryn Tucker

3 minute read

August 30, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judges Send GSK Corporate Drama to Court in Philadelphia

"The appellate court's decision paves the way forward for a fair and public trial that will finally bring to light the serious misconduct that is alleged in the complaint," said the plaintiffs' attorney, former assistant U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York John Zach of Boies Schiller & Flexner in New York.

By Katheryn Tucker

5 minute read

August 30, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Judge Lopez Leaves the Bench to Join DelCampo and Grayson

"It's fun to be a referee, but if you still think you can play the game, playing is a lot more fun," said DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez, who in September will become a partner with DelCampo Grayson Lopez.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read