Russ Bynum

May 06, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A lawsuit filed in Chatham Count Superior Court last week by a man described as frequent visitor to Savannah asks a judge to halt enforcement of the city's gun ordinance.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

March 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.

By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

5 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

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.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read