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April 03, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Zell Miller may be ramping up his new career as a statehouse lobbyist.The former Georgia governor and U.S. senator has registered to lobby at the Capitol on behalf of AirTran Airways, the second-largest airline operating out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.Miller becomes the only ex-Georgia governor who's a registered lobbyist in the state.

By Andy Peters

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February 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

It was a difficult year for Morris, Manning Martin, but the firm's managing partner and executive director said that a wide range of cost-cutting moves has prepared MMM for a rebound.Gross revenue fell 16.1 percent from $99,122,463 in 2008 to $83,160,851 in 2009. Gross revenue had declined 4.07 percent from 2007 to 2008.

By Andy Peters

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March 11, 2010 | Daily Report Online

The Senate Republican whip has proposed cutting 19 superior court judges, including four in Fulton County, saying the move could save the state up to $14 million.Senate Bill 485, authored by Sen. Mitch Seabaugh, R-Sharpsburg, would reduce the number of judges from 205 to 186. Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett Superior Courts would each lose one judge.

By Andy Peters

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November 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Judges of the Fulton County Superior Court have selected Bradley J. Boyd to fill the seat of the late Sanford J. "Sammy" Jones as the presiding judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court.Boyd has been an associate juvenile court judge in Fulton since 2006. Boyd was chosen among five finalists.A 1978 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson College of Law, Boyd began work at the Fulton Juvenile Court in 1973 as a probation officer.

By Andy Peters

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January 20, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Proposed cuts to the DeKalb County courts' budget would endanger domestic violence victims, DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence F. Seeliger wrote in a letter to the county CEO and board of commissioners. Cuts to public defenders would cause delays and cost DeKalb County more in the long run, he added.In his letter sent Jan.

By Andy Peters

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January 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

There will be an open race this year for the seat on the DeKalb County Superior Court occupied by Judge Robert J. Castellani. On Tuesday he said he will leave the bench when his term expires at the end of this year."My decision not to seek another term does not mean I intend to 'retire,' whatever that word means," Castellani said in a press release.

By Andy Peters

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January 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Georgia's request to revive a 2003 agreement between the state and federal authorities that set aside a portion of Lake Lanier to supply drinking water to metropolitan Atlanta. The justices on Monday let stand the D.C. Circuit's reversal of a lower court's approval of the pact between Georgia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The D.C. Circuit held that congressional approval should have been obtained for the deal under the terms of a federal water supply act.

By Andy Peters

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January 21, 2010 | Daily Report Online

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied a motion by Alabama and Florida to dismiss Georgia's appeal of a federal judge's ruling that Georgia was illegally using water from Lake Lanier, according to attorneys representing Georgia.McKenna Long Aldridge partners Bruce P. Brown and R. Todd Silliman, counsel to Georgia, said they had not obtained a copy of the court's order as of Thursday morning.

By Andy Peters

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March 08, 2007 | Daily Report Online

L. BRANCH CONNELLY, the law partner of Summerville criminal defense attorney Bobby Lee Cook, died last week of a gunshot wound.Connelly's death is being investigated as a suicide, said Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead. The investigation is ongoing. An autopsy has been completed, but the report has not been issued yet, he said.

By Andy Peters

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February 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Averting widespread layoffs that judges said would cripple the county's court system, DeKalb County officials have restored about $5 million initially slated to be slashed from key parts of the county's legal establishments.The decision is a win for the DeKalb bench, which launched a campaign to save court funds by attending budget meetings and public hearings to argue their points.

By Andy Peters

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