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Med-mal expert doesn't have chops to save suit
The Court of Appeals of Georgia has upheld the dismissal of a medical malpractice suit over the death of a 10-month-old boy, saying the physician who verified the plaintiffs' complaint did not have enough experience in the area of medicine at issue to be considered an expert. Page Powell (above), who represented Children's Healthcare, said, "There'd be a lot of risk" of juror sympathy for plaintiffs in case of 10-month-old's death.
Suit filed after golf course cut from development plans
WHEN PERRY HOMES, a blighted and crime-infested public housing project in northwest Atlanta, was demolished in 2002, plans were already under way to build houses, apartments and a golf course in its place.Today, the area is home to the first stages of the multiphase, master-planned West Highlands, a 460-acre, mixed-income, mixed-use development blending single-family homes, condos and apartments-with no golf course.11th Circuit to mull right to counsel in asset seizure case
For six years, Kerri Kaley worked at a subsidiary of Johnson Johnson, selling the company's latest surgical innovations to hospitals. But she and about two dozen other salesmen of JJ's Ethicon Endosurgery got into trouble with federal authorities by selling inventory that hospitals no longer wanted on the gray market, an indictment charged.The ugly side of Big Law divorce
Cogs leave Big Firms every day without much fanfare. The automatic deposit of paychecks stops, their names are deleted from firm directories and their computers are reassigned to replacement Cogs. No biggie. But when an equity partner leaves and takes a few others along, the drama kicks into high gear. It is just not that simple to sever the ties that bind true "partners" to one another.In call to deregulate business, a global twist
Prominent figures in the U.S. are warning that the nation's financial markets have been handicapped by post-Enron regulatory overreach. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has made addressing the problem a signature political issue. A blue-ribbon committee chaired by former Bush economist Glenn Hubbard has echoed this sentiment, as does a report commissioned by Sen.
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Humane Society to pay critics' fees
By Aisha I. Jefferson, Staff ReporterRecent rulings that the Atlanta Humane Society must pay $150,000 in attorneys' fees to two women the society had sued for defamation means the state's anti-SLAPP statute has the proper amount of punch, the women's lawyers said."This was a big victory for free speech rights in Georgia.DAs feel left out of salary raise talk
The afternoon of March 10, a third-floor conference room at the state Capitol was packed. Six attorneys-lawmakers, judges, a lobbyist and State Bar of Georgia President Gerald M. Edenfield-took turns urging a special legislative committee to give judges a raise.But when the committee turned to a proposal to increase pay for prosecutors, the room emptied, leaving Henry County District Attorney Tommy K.SEC probe isn't enforcement-it's a charade
Here's another discouraging lesson for anyone hoping the people who caused the financial crisis will be brought to justice someday. Just because the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused a too-big-to-fail company of committing an outrageous fraud, that doesn't mean the agency will hold anyone accountable for it.Newspaper industry losing cachet and cash flow
IT'S BEEN MORE THAN 10 years since Jim Clark, founder of Netscape and human detonator of the Internet boom, wandered around Manhattan trying to persuade established publishers that their newspaper businesses were doomed. Newspapers depended for their survival on classified ads, Clark argued, and classified ads would inevitably migrate from newspapers onto the Internet.Trending Stories
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