R. Robin Mcdonald

January 16, 2018 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. has set up separate litigation tracks for 334 consumer suits and 62 suits by financial institutions against Equifax. Thrash also will preside over separate securities fraud claims against the Atlanta-based credit bureau.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

January 11, 2018 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell Jr. said the 2014 warrantless, no-knock raid of a venue that Fulton County Deputy Devon Brown had rented in a south Atlanta strip mall for meetings of his motorcycle club “was unlawful from the start.” The judge also sanctioned the city and said Brown could seek punitive damages.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

January 09, 2018 | Daily Report Online

A Cobb County man was charged with trying to arrange for the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend, an indictment that came near the 25th anniversary of another infamous murder-for-hire.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

January 09, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Randy Evans' nomination as ambassador to Luxembourg had been in limbo since Dec. 21 since its expiration at the end of the 2017 Congress. But not for long.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

January 08, 2018 | Daily Report Online

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit called "perturbing" the circumstances surrounding the criminal investigation and prosecution of the former general counsel and COO of Glock, Inc. but still decided to affirm the trial court's dismissal of the former Glock executive's malicious prosecution suit against the international gunmaker and its lawyers.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

January 05, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The White House has renominated two state Court of Appeals judges to posts on the Eleventh Circuit and Northern District of Georgia. Three other judicial nominations did not expire but were held over by the U.S. Senate for further consideration.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

January 03, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's appointments include the first African-American woman to serve as district attorney in the Rockdale Judicial Circuit.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

January 03, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Northern District of Georgia bench and Luxembourg ambassadorship are in limbo after the U.S. Senate failed to act on their pending confirmations—the result of a Senate rule that causes the nominations to expire once Congress adjourns.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

January 02, 2018 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. will take senior status July 1, but a committee reporting to Georgia's U.S. senators is already searching for his replacement.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

December 29, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a former intern who orchestrated the arrest of citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale to the superior court bench in the circuit where Tisdale was prosecuted for filming a Republican political rally.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read