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'That Seems to Be a Stretch for Me': Judge Upholds Fulton County Judicial Candidate Disqualification

"If I say Johnson is 12 years old and she can't run, it might be wrong, but she's not there to rebut it. … That's all Judge Walker heard," counsel arguing to uphold the disqualification, said.
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Daily Report Online

DISQUALIFIED: Challenger Loletha Hale Booted From Judicial Race—But Not Ballot

Jonesboro attorney Loletha Hale's challenge of appointed incumbent Judge Stephen N. Knights Jr. ended Thursday following Hale's disqualification from the judicial race for Henry County State Court.
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Daily Report Online

Judge Orders Stay of Tiffani Johnson's Disqualification From Fulton Race for Judge

"[T]his court finds that staying the enforcement of the final decision until further order of this court will best preserve the status quo and avoid prejudice to either side," read DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Stacey K. Hydrick's order.
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The Recorder

How Alameda County Became Mired in a Recall Rules Roulette

"Rather than making a clear choice between the charter or the state rules, the county clerk used both," write Joshua Spivak and David A. Carrillo of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law.
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Daily Report Online

Key Outcomes of This Year's Georgia Legislative Session

Businesses and Georgians will need to wait to see which bills Gov. Brian Kemp will sign into law by next month. The impact of those decisions on the state's health care system, workforce, businesses and all Georgians will be deeply felt.
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Daily Report Online

Federal Judge Upholds Fulton County Poll Workers' $148M Defamation Verdict Against Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani targeted poll workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss of Fulton County, Georgia, stating to Georgia lawmakers in a committee of the state Legislature that Freeman and Moss were shown in a video circulating online "surreptitiously passing around USB ports," allegedly manipulating voting results.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Change of Heart? Is Loletha Hale Still Running for Judge?

"[T]he real reality is that my opponent remains on the ballot," said incumbent Henry County State Court Judge Stephen N. Knights Jr. "There was talk but no action."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Politicians With Social Media Accounts. Litigation Is Around the Block for Them—Literally

One of the most powerful tools on social media is the "block" feature. It allows a social media user to silence the haters and drown out the critics, while curating a more friendly social media feed. But after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Lindke v. Freed and O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, public officials across the country may have just lost their most powerful social media tool—and litigation is surely to follow.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Candidates for Judge of Douglas Circuit Face Off in Virtual Forum

In addition to detailing how each contender would diminish the Douglas Judicial Circuit's backlogged cases, the trio provided individual insight on their views about alternative and innovative sentencing, jury nullification and judicial misconduct.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Litigation Abounds Challenging NY Law That Puts County Elections in Even-Numbered Years

In central New York, Syracuse attorney Robert Julien filed a claim on April 9 on behalf of Oneida County against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who signed the law in December, and the state.
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