R. Robin Mcdonald
February 10, 2017 | Daily Report Online
State Settles Voter Rights Suit, Agrees to Halt Automatic Cancellation of Voter ApplicationsUnder the settlement, voter registrations that are not an exact match to other government databases will be marked "pending," not canceled.
By R. Robin McDonald
8 minute read
February 08, 2017 | Daily Report Online
Smyrna Said to Be Resolving Free Speech Suit Over FlyersThe city of Smyrna "is well on the way to resolving" a federal free speech lawsuit by repealing sections of an ordinance city police had invoked to stop Southern Christian Leadership Conference members from passing out leaflets in a downtown square, said the lawyer who filed the case.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
February 07, 2017 | Daily Report Online
State Supreme Court Vacates Rollins Contempt JudgmentA contempt finding and more than $400,000 in fees assessed against an Atlanta socialite in an ugly post-divorce battle has been vacated by the state Supreme Court and sent back to Fulton County for further review.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
February 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online
'Shadow' JQC Could Allow Bad Judges to Sidestep Discipline, Law Professor SaysA constitutional amendment that abolished the old state Judicial Qualifications Commission includes "an extraordinary example of poor drafting" that a Georgia State University law professor says has led to a temporary "shadow" commission that risks leaving Georgians vulnerable to unethical judges.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
February 02, 2017 | Daily Report Online
Court Quirk Limits Access to CNN Journalist's Suit Over Immigration OrderA new lawsuit by CNN's former Baghdad bureau chief challenging his detention by customs agents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the hours after President Donald Trump signed his controversial immigration order has clear international implications. But a policy of the U.S. Judicial Conference of the United States bars remote electronic access by the public to all filings in the federal court case.
By R. Robin McDonald
15 minute read
February 01, 2017 | Daily Report Online
Cagle's First JQC Appointee Quits, Immediately ReplacedThe lieutenant governor's first appointee to the state Judicial Qualifications Commission has resigned after only one meeting in the face of a campaign by his former constituents to defeat his confirmation.
By R. Robin McDonald
3 minute read
January 31, 2017 | National Law Journal
Out of a Job, Sally Yates' Future Looks BrightThe politics surrounding Trump's firing of Yates as acting AG won't tarnish her appeal to law firms, companies and law schools, said lawyers familiar with her career.
By R. Robin McDonald
14 minute read
January 30, 2017 | Daily Report Online
Former Homeland Security GC: Trump Immigration Order Is ConstitutionalThe Atlanta lawyer who served as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's first general counsel said he believes that President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the issuance of U.S. entry visas to citizens of seven Middle Eastern and African nations passes constitutional muster.
By R. Robin McDonald
10 minute read
January 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal
SEC: Investors Duped in 'Hamilton' Ticket Ponzi SchemeNew Yorker Joseph Meli and Connecticut resident Steven Simmons raised an estimated $81 million with claims they would buy blocks of tickets to "Hamilton" and resell them at a profit, according to federal law enforcement officials.
By R. Robin McDonald
5 minute read
January 26, 2017 | Daily Report Online
SCLC Members Sue Smyrna Police After Leafleting HaltedA controversial police shooting that killed an unarmed black man in 2015 has spawned a lawsuit against police by members of the SCLC, who claimed police attempted to squelch their efforts to educate the public about the shooting during a city festival last year.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
