R. Robin Mcdonald
August 24, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Judge Awards Enhanced Legal Fees in Home Depot Data Breach CaseA federal judge in Atlanta has awarded $7.5 million in legal fees to lawyers representing consumers in multidistrict litigation against The Home Depot over its massive 2014 data breach.
By R. Robin McDonald
7 minute read
August 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Suits Against SunTrust Over 401(k) Plan Now a Class ActionSunTrust Banks' decision at the onset of the recession to allow its employee retirement plan to continue investing in bank stock as it sustained billions in losses and the housing market collapsed is at the heart of multidistrict litigation that a federal judge has said will now proceed against the banking company as a class action.
By R. Robin McDonald
9 minute read
August 19, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Justice Dept., Joining ABA, Asks Court to Affirm Injunction on Bail PracticesThe U.S. Justice Department has joined with the American Bar Association in asking a federal appellate court in Atlanta to affirm a trial judge's finding that jailing misdemeanor defendants who were too poor to pay a cash bond is unconstitutional.
By R. Robin McDonald
3 minute read
August 19, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Muslims Ask Feds to Probe Newton County Vote to Ban MosqueNearly 20 mosques and Muslim organizations across Georgia are calling on the U.S. Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation of Newton County after the county commission voted Aug. 15 to block construction of a mosque.
By R. Robin McDonald
6 minute read
August 18, 2016 | Daily Report Online
ABA Weighs In on Indigent Bail CaseRecommending that cash bail requirements that don't take into account a defendant's individual financial circumstances be abolished, the American Bar Association weighed in Thursday in a federal case challenging bond schedules imposed by the city of Calhoun.
By R. Robin McDonald
5 minute read
August 18, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Settlement in 'Pay-to-Play' Scheme Involving Undocumented Pregnant Women to Exceed $500MDallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. has reached "an agreement in principal" to settle a Georgia whistleblower case for more than $513 million in what the director of a national taxpayer watchdog organization said is the nation's largest "pay-to-play" whistleblower case involving a hospital corporation.
By R. Robin McDonald
7 minute read
August 15, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Fulton County Will Pay $2M to Teen Shot by PoliceAn African-American teenager who was shot in the back of the head five years ago—after he had surrendered to a Fulton County police officer and knelt down on the ground—will receive $2 million to settle a federal civil rights case brought on his behalf.
By R. Robin McDonald
10 minute read
August 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Head of Judicial Watchdog Agency ResignsFacing at least one formal ethics complaint for her role in the felony indictment of a North Georgia publisher and his lawyer, the judge who chairs the state Judicial Qualifications Commission resigned from the agency on Friday.
By R. Robin McDonald
5 minute read
August 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Macon DA, Atlanta Attorney Accused of Fabricating Evidence to Bolster Asset SeizuresAn elderly Macon couple has accused the county district attorney and a special assistant DA of fabricating evidence to support criminal charges against them in order to illegally seize financial assets to bolster the DA's discretionary coffers, according to a federal suit filed Tuesday in Atlanta.
By R. Robin McDonald
7 minute read
August 10, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Ferguson Protester Hits Atlanta Police With Fourth Civil Rights SuitIn the latest lawsuit over an allegedly aggressive police response to a November 2014 march, a protester claims that he was left bloodied by law enforcement.
By R. Robin McDonald
4 minute read
