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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.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.
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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.Lawyer takes GC work to the links for a cause
LA megachurch hopes to win Super Bowl ad contest
LOS ANGELES AP - Pastors have long competed with the NFL on Sundays, but this season a hipster megachurch is turning the tables with a 30-second ad that could muscle its way into that all holiest of sporting events: the Super Bowl.Mosaic, a 3,000-member megachurch, is one of six finalists in the Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" challenge with a lighthearted spoof that plays off the resurrection of Jesus Christ.Man exonerated in rape after nearly 22 years in prison
ATLANTA AP - After proclaiming his innocence from prison for nearly 22 years, a man who has been cleared of a rape conviction by DNA evidence walked out of the Fulton County Jail as a free man Tuesday night.Willie O. "Pete" Williams has spent nearly half his life in a Georgia prison. He was convicted of aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and rape when the victim identified him as the perpetrator in the April 1985 incident.Court Reverses Summary Judgment In School Bus Accident
The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to the Pierce County School District in Katina Nixon's negligence action, on her own behalf and as the “next friend” of her daughter, after Nixon suffered injuries when a school bus struck her vehicle from behind while she was nine-months pregnant, holding that the trial court erred in finding that Nixon failed to show a genuine issue of material fact as to the cause of her child's injuries.Trending Stories
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