By Mason Lawlor | May 19, 2023
"There is simply no authority clearly establishing that an officer who finds a bedridden, elderly, incoherent citizen sitting in her own waste, without any visible source of food or water, violates the Fourth Amendment when the officer directs that the citizen be transported from her home for medical treatment," the court said.
By Alaina Lancaster | May 15, 2023
Hanson Bridgett partner Maggie Ziemianek said anti-SLAPP motions provide a very important tool, especially in a crowded court docket, where the issue could've taken up to three years to get adjudicated.
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By Michael Kenny | May 10, 2023
The statistics are staggering. As of April 21, since 2006, 2,842 people have died in mass shootings—happening in homes, houses of worship, schools (lots of them), grocery stores, ballrooms, party venues, concerts. Any provocation, no matter how minor, inflames homicidal passions—knock on the wrong door, pull into the wrong driveway, mistake the wrong car.
By Cedra Mayfield | April 13, 2023
"If it's a close call, that's when qualified immunity is supposed to kick in," said appellee counsel Phillip E. Friduss of Hall Booth Smith in Atlanta. "Qualified immunity is designed specifically for the 'close calls.'"
By Alex Anteau | March 16, 2023
As a consequence of this ruling, citizens who seek a binding, statewide declaratory judgment while also seeking emergency injunctive relief against a specific official will have to file two separate lawsuits even though they share the same questions of fact and law," said plaintiff-appellee attorney Tom Church.
By Avalon Zoppo | March 6, 2023
"Offended observer standing appears to warp the very essence of the judicial power vested by the Constitution," Thomas wrote in a dissent.
By Mason Lawlor | February 9, 2023
"Here, the BOLO for an aggressive driver in a gray passenger vehicle traveling on Mulberry Rock Road with an orange out-of-state tag was, without more information, too generalized to warrant a traffic stop because '[t]his description would cover a staggering number of vehicles and drivers in the State of Georgia' and cannot create a reasonable suspicion to stop the vehicle,"' Court of Appeals Judge Ben Land wrote.
By Jason Grant | February 9, 2023
The inmate has "stated a plausible claim for relief by arguing that his use of the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin for back pain would make his brain less responsive, or possibly unresponsive, to a drug used by Georgia for lethal injections," wrote a three-judge circuit court panel.
By Cheryl Miller | January 26, 2023
"We do not intend to pursue rulemaking allowing the use of CBD in dietary supplements or conventional foods," FDA principal deputy commissioner Janet Woodcock said Friday.
By The Associated Press | January 26, 2023
"[Ross] Brunet's speech has in fact been chilled," according to the lawsuit. "He is fearful of and refrains from engaging in his protected political speech in Grand Isle, out of fear of government punishment or further retaliatory action."
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