R. Robin Mcdonald
February 19, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Legislator Asks for Subpoena Power to Investigate Judicial WatchdogThe chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has introduced a resolution to create a committee with subpoena powers to investigate the state judicial watchdog agency.
By R. Robin McDonald
7 minute read
February 18, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Lay Members Return to JQC in New Version of BillLegislation re-creating the state judicial ethics watchdog agency has been changed to restore two of the agency's seven commission seats to members of the public who are not members of the State Bar of Georgia.
By R. Robin McDonald
5 minute read
February 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online
State to Pay Bartow County Landowner $1.7M for Highway Slope Easement, Jury SaysA Bartow County jury has awarded a county landowner $1.7 million after he challenged the Georgia Department of Transportation's condemnation of his property at the intersection of a state highway and Interstate 75.
By R. Robin McDonald
4 minute read
February 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Obama Taps Alabama Federal Judge For 11th CircuitPresident Barack Obama has nominated a federal judge from Alabama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta.
By R. Robin McDonald
1 minute read
February 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Common Cause, NAACP Sue Over Purged Voter RollsCommon Cause Georgia and the Georgia NAACP on Wednesday sued Secretary of State Brian Kemp, claiming that his office illegally purged hundreds of thousands of registered, qualified voters from the state's voter registration rolls.
By R. Robin McDonald
2 minute read
February 10, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Legal Research Firm Sues Over Whether State Regulations Can Be CopyrightedThe CEO of a legal research service that's free to members of the State Bar of Georgia said his company's suit against the Georgia secretary of state's designated publisher of the state's rules and regulations is about "whether private publishers can own public law."
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
February 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online
U.S. Attorney: 'King of Diamonds' Convicted of Sex TraffickingBy R. Robin McDonald
3 minute read
February 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Bar Members' Free Research Service Sues Over Publishing State RegsA legal research service free to members of the State Bar of Georgia is suing the Georgia secretary of state's designated publisher of the state's administrative rules and regulations, contending that the publisher's exclusive contract with the state does not give it a right to copyright public laws and regulations.
By R. Robin McDonald
2 minute read
February 08, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Supreme Court Rules Murder Defendant Cannot Be RetriedJailed for three years awaiting trial on charges that he killed a 75-year-old woman and wounded a 71-year-old man, Geary Otis will soon be free after the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Monday that he cannot be tried for the crimes.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
February 08, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Supreme Court: Mistrial Ends Fulton County's Chance to Try Murder Defendant AgainThe Supreme Court of Georgia has thrown out the murder case of a man charged with stabbing a 75-year-old woman to death and has barred Fulton County prosecutors from retrying him.
By R. Robin McDonald
2 minute read
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