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March 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The judge didn't address the merits of the claims but agreed with county attorneys who said the suit clashed with a 2020 amendment to the state Constitution that weakened the broad immunity from lawsuits granted to state and local governments.

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February 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick four months after the man was killed in a violent struggle that began after a Camden County sheriff's staff sergeant pulled him over for speeding on Interstate 95.

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February 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The residents' lawsuit accuses McIntosh County of violating Georgia laws governing zoning procedures and public meetings, as well as residents' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.

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February 15, 2024 | Daily Report Online

In their written response to a Fulton County Superior Court judge order requiring True the Vote to provide evidence it had collected, attorneys for the group said there were no names or other documentary evidence to share.

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January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.

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December 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told reporters Tuesday that the sum represents $1 million for every year Leonard Cure spent imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction. He was killed just three years after Florida authorities set him free.

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December 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Residents and landowners of the tiny Hogg Hummock community sued in October after McIntosh County commissioners voted to weaken zoning restrictions that for decades helped protect the enclave of modest homes along dirt roads on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island.

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November 29, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The one-page ruling by Senior Judge John R. Turner comes 20 months after defense attorneys for former District Attorney Jackie Johnson filed a legal motion arguing the case against her should be scrapped for lack of evidence.

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November 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Personnel records show Buck Aldridge was fired in August 2017 by a police department in the same Georgia county after he threw a woman to the ground and handcuffed her during a traffic stop. The Camden County Sheriff's Office hired him nine months later.

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October 16, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The civil lawsuit was filed in McIntosh County Superior Court a month after elected county commissioners voted to double the size of houses allowed in Hogg Hummock, where a few dozen people live in modest homes along dirt roads on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island. Black residents fear larger homes in the community will lead to property tax increases that they won't be able to afford.

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