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April 12, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter In the campaign for state Attorney General, Republican challenger Perry J. McGuire out-raised incumbent Thurbert E. Baker in the first three months of this year, but Baker, a Democrat, retains a wide lead on total money in the bank.Baker and McGuire's fundraising totals were among campaign disclosure reports for the first quarter filed last week by many candidates for public office.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

October 23, 2006 | Daily Report Online

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT have dominated the discourse so far in this year's campaign for the attorney general's post, although law enforcement only makes up a small part of the job.In campaign appearances across Georgia, incumbent Thurbert E. Baker is burnishing his tough-on-crime credentials by touting his role in passing the two-strikes-you're-out law and other measures.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

December 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

After suffering a catastrophic head injury while unloading a truck for his employer in 2006, Kenny Whitey of Gainesville started receiving $47,000 a month to pay for round-the-clock nursing care, therapy and medical supplies. But the recent collapse of Southeastern U.S. Insurance Inc. has left Whitey's lawyer, and many like him, scrambling to find replacement benefits.

By Andy Peters

9 minute read

December 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Despite turbulence from up-and-down fuel prices and lower demand caused by the recession, the airline industry's woes haven't completely iced the market for the acquisition and leasing of new aircraft.Smith, Gambrell Russell partner Donald B. Mitchell last month advised a subsidiary of CIT Group Inc. on leasing two new aircraft to Compaa Mexicana de Aviacin S.

By Andy Peters

8 minute read

August 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

ABOUT 1,000 RETIRED Delta Air Lines pilots asked a federal bankruptcy judge Tuesday to award them at least $100 million in pension benefits they say Delta hasn't paid them.The pilots say in filings made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York that Delta hasn't paid the benefits because the company is misinterpreting federal tax law.

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

October 21, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

September 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

One of the creators of a law allowing the state government to fund charter schools with local money, even when the schools had been rejected by local school boards, says the Gwinnett County School Board's court challenge to the provision is wrong. "We think what we've done is perfectly constitutional," said state Rep.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

July 31, 2008 | Daily Report Online

An Atlanta-area company that makes health care management software tapped technology attorney Michael R. Siavage for advice on a transaction.Siavage, of the three-lawyer Siavage Law Group, advised Brightree LLC on obtaining a venture capital investment from Battery Ventures. Brightree and Battery Ventures did not disclose the size of the investment.

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

December 02, 2010 | Daily Report Online

After challenges from not one, but two, opponents, David E. Nahmias can rest easy knowing that he is able to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court for at least another six years.Nahmias, a 46-year-old former federal prosecutor appointed to the court last year by Gov. Sonny Perdue, handily defeated Lawrenceville divorce lawyer Tamela L.

By Alyson M. Palmer, Greg Land and Andy Peters

9 minute read

July 26, 2010 | Daily Report Online

The latest ruling by a federal judge in Georgia's long-running water wars should prevent Georgia from suffering a catastrophic loss of water, presuming it's upheld on appeal, according to the state's attorneys. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson may also give Gov. Sonny Perdue more leverage in talks with Alabama and Florida's governors over how to share water resources, Georgia's attorneys said.

By Andy Peters

8 minute read