R. Robin Mcdonald

August 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A suit has been filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claiming the agencies violated the federal Freedom of Information Act by ignoring repeated requests for information about January raids in which 121 women and children in Georgia, Texas and North Carolina were taken into custody.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

August 08, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Without admitting fault, Georgia resolved the Southern Poverty Law Center's litigation over a state policy that barred certain legal immigrants from obtaining or renewing their driver's licenses.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

August 08, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers' Committee is teaming up with the NAACP and a Latino group to challenge voting procedures for the county commission and school board.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

August 01, 2016 | The American Lawyer

BofA sees a $1.27B judgment tossed, hospitals turn back the FTC's efforts to block their merger, and more.

By —R. Robin McDonald, with S.F.

49 minute read

July 28, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The former chairman of Georgia's judicial watchdog agency says that a visiting judge's treatment of the media at a hearing over whether to dismiss a controversial indictment against a north Georgia publisher and his lawyer may run afoul of a formal opinion the agency issued in 2013 warning judges that their courtrooms must, except in rare circumstances, remain open to the public.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

July 28, 2016 | Daily Report Online

When senior Judge Richard Winegarden presided over the dismissal of the indictment of a north Georgia publisher and a lawyer on July 18, he held court even though he had been thrown off the bench eight years earlier by the voters and then defeated in a subsequent campaign for another judgeship.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

July 27, 2016 | Daily Report Online

After Ronnie Music Jr. won $3 million last year in the Georgia Lottery, prosecutors say he decided to use his winnings to invest in an illegal stash of crystal methamphetamine and guns and then market them across the South.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

July 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The University System of Georgia has settled two federal cases with Georgia Institute of Technology students expelled over what they claimed were bogus allegations that they had sexually assaulted fellow students.

By R. Robin McDonald

11 minute read

July 21, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Georgia's largest provider of medical malpractice insurance has agreed to pay a $4.9 million judgment rendered against a metro Atlanta physician and his medical clinic, even though the clinic's insurance policies had a combined $2 million ceiling, according to the medical malpractice lawyer who secured the winning verdict.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

July 20, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers with Atlanta's Southern Center for Human Rights shared stories Tuesday of their fight for justice in a case where prosecutors intentionally excluded black jurors.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read