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June 05, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Representatives from up and down Georgia's judiciary are set to meet this afternoon to talk about litigation, presumably against Gov. Sonny Perdue, concerning the governor's order to cut state allocations throughout the government by 25 percent for the month of June.The meeting of the state Judicial Council, scheduled for 1 p.

By Jonathan Ringel and Andy Peters

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May 20, 2010 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. on Wednesday took a pass on commenting on legislation awaiting Gov. Sonny Perdue's signature that could affect the city of Atlanta's sewer overhaul, which the judge oversees as part of a 1998 consent decree in a suit against the city by an environmental group. In a brief status conference, Thrash also did not rule on Atlanta's request for a 15-year extension to his deadline to fix its sewers.

By Andy Peters

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October 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Gov. Sonny Perdue has promoted Richard S. "Rick" Thompson to chairman of the State Board of Workers' Compensation.Thompson joined the three-member board two months ago when the governor tapped him to replace Viola S. Drew, whose four-year term expired in May.Now Thompson replaces Carolyn C. Hall, who had chaired the board since she was picked by Gov.

By Andy Peters

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October 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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April 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WITH ONLY A HANDFUL of days left to this year's General Assembly, 11 employees of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia last week registered with the State Ethics Commission as lobbyists.No bill affecting Georgia's colleges and universities prompted a sudden, last-minute mobilization, and the newly registered lobbyists were hardly newcomers to the Capitol hallways.

By Andy Peters

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March 05, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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March 22, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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March 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

THE STATE Senate has approved budget changes designed to help the Legislature gain more control of the judiciary branch's finances. The proposal specifically targets the policy-making Judicial Council of Georgia, which is headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. Included in the fiscal 2007 budget, which was approved by the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 50-3, is a $1.

By Andy Peters

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April 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Macon lawyer Frank C. Jones will lead a team of eight lawyers representing Gov. Sonny Perdue in a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care plan. Perdue will join a suit filed last month in federal district court in Florida.Jones, a former King Spalding partner who's now of counsel at Jones, Cork Miller, represented Perdue in Perdue v.

By Andy Peters

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August 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Gov. Sonny Perdue will name Drew Eckl Farnham partner Richard S. "Rick" Thompson as a member of the State Board of Workers' Compensation, replacing Viola S. Drew, whose term has expired, according to Perdue's office. Thompson is a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia who has experience in workers' compensation law.

By Andy Peters

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