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April 23, 2020 | Daily Report Online

U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak said that a temporary restraining order disqualifying him from the investigating former City of Atlanta CFO Jim Beard would slow down the City Hall corruption investigation, which has been ongoing since at least 2017.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

April 22, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Federal prosecutors are fighting to keep Reality Winner—the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking information to the media—in a Texas prison, rather than release her to serve the remaining 19 months of a 63-month sentence in home confinement.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 21, 2020 | Daily Report Online

A federal lawsuit accuses Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard of soliciting sexual favors from a longtime former staffer.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

April 21, 2020 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge in Atlanta has rejected a request to suspend the state's handgun carry license law during the ongoing COVID-19 emergency.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

April 20, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Chief Justice Harold Melton commended his colleagues on the bench for their willingness "to try whatever is necessary to keep the courts moving."

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

April 17, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Randal Hall, chief judge of the Southern District of Georgia, has given federal prosecutors two weeks to respond to a motion to commute Reality Winner's sentence to home confinement, despite a COVID-19 infection at FMC-Carswell, where Winner is serving time for leaking information about Russian hackers to the news media.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

April 17, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Six state Supreme Court justices have now recused from hearing an appeal over whether to reinstate an election for the seat currently held by colleague Justice Keith Blackwell. But three justices remain on the case.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

April 17, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Judge Charles Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reflects on the first time in the circuit's history that oral arguments were conducted by telephone, while lawyers, judges and their staffs were forced to shelter in place because of COVID-19.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 16, 2020 | Daily Report Online

The general counsel of GeorgiaCarry.Org has been enlisted by two other pro-gun groups to challenge a Georgia law requiring a license to carry a handgun in public.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

April 15, 2020 | Daily Report Online

A member of a Georgia organization devoted to unfettered gun rights has asked a federal judge in Atlanta to suspend a state law requiring gun owners be licensed to carry a handgun in public while the state's probate judges have suspended licensing as nonessential.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read