R. Robin Mcdonald

March 01, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The Atlanta offices of personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan have settled two federal wage-and-hour cases by former staff members over unpaid overtime—one for $20,000 and one for $30,000.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

February 29, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Norman Fletcher said that before he joined the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1989, he had given little thought to the death penalty. He had never tried or defended a death penalty case and, because of that, he didn't oppose it.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

February 25, 2016 | Daily Report Online

One of the nation's largest hospital chains has offered to pay $238 million to end a federal criminal investigation and a separate whistleblower suit involving allegations that four of its Georgia hospitals paid kickbacks to a chain of metro Atlanta prenatal clinics in return for patient referrals.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

February 25, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A law firm that represents plaintiffs in wage-related cases is settling two suits with former Atlanta employees who claimed the firm violated federal labor laws by requiring them to work overtime without fully compensating them.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

February 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would create a new Superior Court judgeship in Clayton County.

By R. Robin McDonald

1 minute read

February 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A federal grand jury has indicted three executive officers of an Atlanta currency exchange firm that at one time was one of the nation's largest sellers and exchangers of Iraqi currency, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta announced Monday.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish the state judicial watchdog agency and companion legislation giving the General Assembly authority to re-create and govern it.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday ruled that a judge cannot impose a sentence on a defendant lighter than a prosecutor has recommended without the prosecutor's consent—a victory for prosecutors that reverses a ruling last year by the state Court of Appeals.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Thursday's decision by a federal appellate panel in Atlanta rejecting challenges to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate was the eighth by a federal circuit court to affirm regulations that require employers with religious objections to contraceptives to notify the government of their intent to not offer contraceptive coverage in insurance plans.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

February 19, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A federal appellate panel in Atlanta on Thursday rejected 2-1 separate challenges to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate, holding that requirements that religious organizations formally "opt out" of coverage does not substantially burden their religious exercise or violate their right to religious freedom.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read