R. Robin Mcdonald

June 16, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The Justice Department submitted the manual under a provisional seal because there may be privileged or sensitive information in it.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

June 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

At the Georgia Court of Appeals Thursday, state attorneys argued on behalf of the Board of Regents that a Fulton County judge got their ruling on a controversial policy wrong last year.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

June 14, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The same day the State Bar of Georgia publicly reprimanded the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives for an ethics violation involving one of his former clients, Speaker David Ralston appointed the attorney who had defended him during the course of the ethics probe as one of his two representatives to the state's judicial watchdog agency.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

June 14, 2017 | National Law Journal

Each new tweak to the tale of how Diane McIver was shot to death by her husband, Fisher & Phillips senior partner Claud "Tex" McIver, stoked a chorus of growing suspicion.

By R. Robin McDonald

11 minute read

June 13, 2017 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Marvin H. Shoob — whose fierce willingness to address institutional injustices during more than 36 years on the federal bench in Atlanta stemmed from a seminal experience as a young soldier in World War II — died Monday. He was 94.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

June 12, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge in Atlanta has barred the Trump administration, at least temporarily, from revoking the immigration status of an undocumented woman whose case helped to prompt the creation of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

June 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The attorney representing an Atlanta lawyer who was indicted in April on charges of malice and felony murder in his wife's death and of influencing witnesses after he shot her about how she died says the search for a second will has come up empty.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

June 08, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge in Atlanta is considering whether to issue an injunction that would halt, at least temporarily, the deportation of an undocumented immigrant woman brought to the U.S. when she was 11 who in 2010 became a flashpoint for the nation's ongoing political struggle over immigration.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

June 07, 2017 | Daily Report Online

When Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall visited Atlanta attorney Claud "Tex" McIver at the county jail where McIver —charged with the murder of his wife — was being held without bond, Schwall told him, "Hey, man, I'm with you 1,000 percent," a county prosecutor says.

By R. Robin McDonald

13 minute read

June 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A Fulton County assistant district attorney argued Tuesday that the former Fisher & Phillips law partner facing murder charges in the shooting death of his wife should not be released on bond because he was attempting to influence witnesses and prominent public officials—foremost among them a Fulton County judge.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read