R. Robin Mcdonald

January 05, 2015 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge has sanctioned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for destroying evidence in a employee discrimination case, ordering as punishment that the jury can presume company supervisors retaliated against a longtime employee who had complained of discrimination by firing him.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

December 31, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boggs will not be renominated for a federal judgeship, Georgia's U.S. senators said in a statement released late Tuesday.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

December 31, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge in Atlanta is considering Georgia's motion to dismiss a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage as well as its refusal to recognize unions in dozens of other states where the practice is allowed.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

December 22, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Mercer University Press' 25th annual author's luncheon was a formal celebration of the 78-year-old Robert Steed, who received bachelor's and law degrees from Mercer, cofounded its press and began the author's luncheons 25 years ago.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

December 21, 2014 | Daily Report Online

President Barack Obama announced Monday afternoon his intent to nominate Sally Quillian Yates, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, to be Deputy Attorney General, the No. 2 person in the U.S. Department of Justice.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

December 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Two of Georgia's Democratic congressmen have written President Barack Obama asking him not to renominate Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boggs, whom they called "unfit to serve," to the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

December 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A Clayton County firm that services railroad yards across the country has paid $2.58 million to a Kansas rail yard worker who sued after he suffered a traumatic brain injury caused by a makeshift cannon fired by fellow employees.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

December 17, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A Floyd hospital employee who rejected a $2 million offer to settle his suit after losing his leg when a hospital vehicle collided with his motorcycle was awarded $8.6 million last week by a jury in Rome.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

December 15, 2014 | Daily Report Online

When Murray County resident Angela Garmley first complained to the state judicial disciplinary agency two years ago that the county's chief magistrate judge solicited sex in exchange for a favorable ruling in a case she had before him, she set in motion a chain of events that made her a reluctant star witness in the judge's political demise and conviction last week for federal civil rights and drug violations.

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read

December 11, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal jury in Rome on Thursday convicted a former Murray County magistrate judge of orchestrating the false arrest of a woman who was testifying against him in a state ethics investigation.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read