R. Robin Mcdonald

July 14, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A former exotic dancer at The Cheetah, Atlanta's iconic high-dollar strip club, settled two federal lawsuits with management for $110,000 and $18,050 in legal fees.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

July 14, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Former FBI agent Kenneth W. Hillman III and a female acquaintance did a good job luring would-be sexual predators. Only problem: The woman was reportedly his lover, with no authority to access sensitive law enforcement files

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

July 13, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 18-2 Thursday to send Kevin Newsom's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to the full Senate for confirmation.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

July 13, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Just 10 days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Sen. Richard Shelby's chief of staff placed a call to Kevin Newsom, Alabama's former solicitor general, to arrange a visit. The Alabama senator, she said, wanted to discuss a vacancy on the Eleventh Circuit bench.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

July 12, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Two men who filed complaints with the State Bar of Georgia against disbarred Buckhead lawyer Robert T. Thompson Jr. say Thompson's indictment on Tuesday by a Fulton County grand jury caps years of civil and criminal complaints by an unofficial network of his former clients to recover losses stemming from the lawyer's failure to do his job.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

July 11, 2017 | Daily Report Online

U.S. Justice Department lawyers prosecuting former NSA contractor Reality Winner over alleged leaks of classified information regarding Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election are arguing her defense team should not be allowed to discuss any classified information, even if it was in news reports.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

June 30, 2017 | Daily Report Online

When attorneys sued Georgia's electric power cooperatives on behalf of millions of current and former power customer members, they claimed the cooperatives, known as electric membership corporations, for decades had withheld as much as $2 billion in profits that should have, by law, been distributed regularly to their members.

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read

June 29, 2017 | Daily Report Online

With her supervisors' encouragement, the manager of the Dalton office of a children's dental clinic that catered to Medicaid recipients created an overheated incentive program to recruit new patients—without knowing it likely violated federal regulations.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

June 29, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Stephen Bright—for decades the brave heart of Atlanta's Southern Center for Human Rights—believes the death penalty is morally wrong, "a primitive, barbaric punishment" that he said degrades and coarsens society. He has dedicated much of his legal career to stepping between Death Row inmates and their final walk to execution. When all else fails, he bears witness to their deaths, letting them know they are not alone as they die and comforting their families afterward.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

June 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The letter that arrived at the State Bar of Georgia in April 2016 containing a white powdery substance contained an ominous threat. "We will kill of all you. … Have some 'anthrax,'" it said, according to federal court records. Federal authorities said Tuesday that the man who sent that letter, Travis Ball, 50, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for mailing the threat, which did not contain actual anthrax.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read