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July 15, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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July 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

In the first stage of fundraising for the 2010 state attorney general campaign, state Rep. Robert B. Teilhet raised the most money of the three announced candidates.Teilhet, a Democrat from Smyrna, reported raising $203,069 in the first six months of this year, according to a filing provided by the candidate. Cobb County Commission Chairman Samuel S.

By Andy Peters

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February 01, 2010 | Daily Report Online

State senators piqued over by the State Bar of Georgia are considering whether bar membership should continue to be mandatory. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved a motion by Sen. Preston W. Smith, R-Rome, to investigate whether the relationship between the Legislature and the State Bar "is appropriately managed.

By Andy Peters

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July 21, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Former Albany district attorney Kenneth B. Hodges III easily won the Democratic primary for attorney general Tuesday, while the Republican race for AG is headed to a runoff.Former Cobb County Commission chairman Samuel S. Olens and state Sen. Preston W. Smith of Rome will face each other in a runoff in three weeks. Olens won 39.

By Andy Peters

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March 20, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Two of the three Superior Court judges in the Paulding Judicial Circuit have recused from a citizen's effort to unseal court filings in House Speaker Glenn Richardson's divorce case. The only judge that's left to hear the matter is the one whose actions prompted the citizen's motion-Judge James R. Osborne.

By Andy Peters

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November 03, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Voters approved a measure that will dramatically strengthen non-compete provisions in employment contracts. With 97 percent of precincts reporting late Tuesday night, 67.6 percent of voters said they favored an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that would make dramatic changes to how non-compete provisions in employment contracts are written and enforced by judges.

By Andy Peters

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March 15, 2007 | Daily Report Online

HOUSE SPEAKER Glenn Richardson opposes a plan to elect state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals jurors by congressional district, a proposal that would expand both courts.The proposal would inject too much partisanship into judicial elections, Richardson said in a Wednesday afternoon briefing with reporters."I don't think we ought to be doing that," said Richardson, R-Hiram, a lawyer.

By Andy Peters

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January 30, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A Senate committee on Thursday afternoon approved a plan to dissolve the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council and replace it with a new advisory board.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 42 by a party-line vote of 5-4. The bill would dissolve the current board and strip it of its authority to independently set policy and spending guidelines.

By Andy Peters

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April 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

In the final hours of this year's legislative session, lawmakers scrapped a proposed budget for the judicial branch that Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears had said was unconstitutional.A joint House-Senate committee on Friday rejected sweeping budget cuts and a reorganization of the judicial branch that had been approved by the Senate earlier in the week.

By Andy Peters

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March 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A Fulton County judge on Monday ordered a defunct South Georgia road-paving company to pay the state Department of Transportation $2.8 million in a dispute over roadwork.Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. vacated a Jan. 13 jury verdict that had favored the road paver, Douglas Asphalt Co. The DOT had sued Douglas Asphalt in 2004, saying the road paver should pay $3.

By Andy Peters

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