R. Robin Mcdonald

March 29, 2017 | Daily Report Online

An Atlanta music streaming service that promotes itself as "the 800-pound gorilla of free hip-hop mixtapes" contends that when the nation's largest recording companies sued it for $3 billion last month, they omitted a key detail: that the recording giants had asked Spinrilla to promote and distribute their music.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

March 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

One day after a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that the state of Georgia may copyright its official legal code and pursue infringers, a California public records activist who had made Georgia's code available for free to the general public began work on an appeal.

By R. Robin McDonald

12 minute read

March 24, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The last time government officials tried to keep DeKalb County attorney Stacey Kalberman from doing her job as ethics chief, it cost the state of Georgia $1.15 million.

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read

March 23, 2017 | Daily Business Review

An Atlanta-based private equity investment firm is suing longtime legal counsel Alston & Bird over claims that Alston lawyers provided bad legal advice based on a multimillion-dollar math error—then allegedly attempted to cover it up.

By R. Robin McDonald

14 minute read

March 21, 2017 | Daily Report Online

After twice sidestepping efforts to draw it into what can aptly be described as a burgeoning legal food fight involving the chairman and former CEO of iconic Southern restaurant chain Waffle House and his longtime housekeeper and personal assistant, the state Supreme Court has decided to weigh in on whether a Cobb County judge should have stripped the housekeeper of her legal counsel.

By R. Robin McDonald

17 minute read

March 20, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Media companies that stream music recordings made prior to 1972 over the internet without paying royalties or licensing fees are not violating Georgia's criminal record piracy law, the state Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous opinion handed down Monday.

By R. Robin McDonald

11 minute read

March 20, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A federal appellate panel in Atlanta whose members had offered blistering verbal critiques of lawyers defending the city of Calhoun's practice of jailing people too poor to post misdemeanor bonds nevertheless have handed the city an appellate win.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

March 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Only one of Georgia's three U.S. attorneys has resigned following the Trump administration's sudden decision last Friday to terminate nearly four dozen U.S. attorneys across the country appointed by former President Barack Obama.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

March 14, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The growing use of electronic devices by the public to record events and broadcast them over the internet has prompted Georgia's superior court judges to dramatically rewrite the state's longtime rule governing the presence of cameras in court.

By R. Robin McDonald

11 minute read

March 02, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The lawsuit claims several prescription pet food products sold to dog and cat owners at inflated prices are available for less money without the prescription.

By R. Robin McDonald

26 minute read