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Daily Report reporter R. Robin McDonald's journalism career includes stints as a staff writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Wichita Eagle, and The Anniston Star and as a trial tracker at CourtTV and CNN. She is the author of two true crime books -- Black Widow: The True Story of the Hilley Poisonings and Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars.
February 15, 2019
Chris Erwin cast his last vote on Feb. 8, less than an hour before Senior Superior Court Judge David Sweat signed an order reiterating his Feb. 1 bench ruling tossing December election results.
February 14, 2019
The trial in Fulton County Superior Court centered on allegations of misappropriated investment funds, competing online gambling enterprises and the defendant’s rakish wink at the jury that may have backfired.
February 11, 2019
Stefan Ritter resigned after his own agency began an investigation into allegations he misused a state computer.
February 11, 2019
Attorney General Chris Carr said he has filed misdemeanor charges in a "first of its kind prosecution" accusing former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's press secretary of stonewalling public records requests.
February 08, 2019
A twice-tainted Republican primary over a North Georgia House seat is scheduled for another do-over on April 9.
February 07, 2019
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg had promised an expedited discovery if her ruling were upheld on appeal.
February 07, 2019
Judge Timothy Batten of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia threw out claims by a former Kennesaw State University cheerleader against a powerful former legislator and the county sheriff, finding that the defendants' "only discernible motive was their view that the flag and the anthem should be respected."
February 07, 2019
The secretary of state confirmed it’s investigating a “unique case” in northern Georgia. That election's results were tossed last week over illegal votes.
February 05, 2019
Holland & Knight’s Jake Evans appears to have done something no one else in Georgia has—persuade a judge that new results for an election already tossed over illegal votes are also invalid.
February 01, 2019
The judge tossed the election results after finding people who were not residents of the district were allowed to vote in the contentious Republican primary.
February 01, 2019
Richard S. Thompson, who served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia from 2001-2004, has been in jail since July.
January 31, 2019
The Georgia ad urges people to join in the fight to return to paper ballots and reform the state's troubled and obsolete election system, which has been the target of several lawsuits.
January 30, 2019
Counsel for Georgia's new secretary of state and the State Election Board say they should not be sued in a sweeping lawsuit intended to reform Georgia's election system, claiming they don't implement state election laws. But testimony from the director of the state's Center for Elections Systems shows the secretary is the architect of all elections, even down to the precinct level.
January 28, 2019
A professional photographer is suing the campaign of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, claiming that the campaign of the state's top legal officer used a photograph without securing permission or a licensing agreement. Another photographer has a similar infringement suit pending against Gov. Brian Kemp's campaign.
January 28, 2019
U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr.'s ruling called the 2017 data breach "unprecedented."
January 25, 2019
An attorney for the former employees said an email showing their boss relied on a script provided by his wife, the associate general counsel at a large beverage wholesaler, played a role in securing the settlement.
January 18, 2019
The judge ruled plaintiffs didn't prove Georgia's outdated electronic voting machines caused a significant undervote.
January 17, 2019
As the trial over whether to void the election of Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan began Thursday, plaintiffs fought an uphill battle against a chorus of objections.
January 16, 2019
Attorneys for Georgia's secretary of state won a dismissal of their client from a lawsuit contesting the election of Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, but the lawyers haven't left the legal playing field.
January 11, 2019
The photo in question is of Democratic gubernatorial challenger Stacey Abrams, which was originally published in The New York Times.
January 09, 2019
A specially appointed judge on Wednesday set Jan. 17 to try a civil suit contesting the election of Republican Lt. Gov.-elect Geoff Duncan. The suit claims that significant anomalies in the vote tallies likely due to the state's obsolete electronic voting system, may have cost Democratic challenger Sarah Riggs Amico the race. Amico is not a party to the case.
January 09, 2019
Wood confidentially settled a $750 million defamation suit against CBS and secured a favorable order in Alabama in an ongoing case against Oxygen Media.
January 08, 2019
A hearing on a motion to dismiss the election lawsuit is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
January 07, 2019
The Robbins Law Group and the governor's office are trading lawyers. Robbins partner David Dove will become Gov.-elect Brian Kemp's top lawyer, while outgoing Gov. Nathan Deal's executive counsel, Carey Miller, will join the Robbins firm.
January 07, 2019
The judges said that, in allowing Walter Energy to shift health care benefits to the federal government, the court was rendering its decision based on the law, not as policymakers.
January 04, 2019
At its Friday conference, the high court decided it will hear North Carolina Republican legislators’ appeal of a 2018 three-judge ruling that found partisan gerrymandering used to corral the majority of Democratic voters in just three districts in 2016 was unconstitutional.
January 03, 2019
The federal courts have funds to operate at full staff through Jan. 11.
January 03, 2019
Bondurant said he found the seeds of a viable constitutional claim against partisan gerrymandering in an argument put forth by Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2004.
December 27, 2018
Part two of our review takes a look at some of the contentious trials that heated up Georgia courtrooms in 2018.
December 26, 2018
First up in our two-part year in review, a look back at the big trials targeting the misdeeds of two Georgia attorneys.
December 20, 2018
A pair of Harris Lowry Manton attorneys have teamed up to produce a weekly podcast featuring some of the nation's top plaintiffs lawyers.
December 20, 2018
The petition asks a judge to invalidate the Dec. 4 results and order another new election for a Republican primary.
December 18, 2018
John Marshall Law School's accreditation is at risk unless the law school can resolve "persistent" and "substantial" noncompliance with accreditation standards.
December 14, 2018
The panel rejected arguments by CNN that Georgia's anti-SLAPP statute mandated the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit.
December 13, 2018
Plaintiffs counsel are seeking documents used in a congressional report that found the company's massive data breach was preventable.
December 11, 2018
Attorneys at Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley secured the settlement on behalf of a U.S. Army veteran despite South Carolina's $450,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases.
December 07, 2018
A former lawyer with Turner Broadcasting whose Georgia law license lapsed in 1998 faced civil litigation over failing to pay his employees and over the rights to a fantasy football lottery patent that was later abandoned.
December 04, 2018
The JQC move comes after the state Supreme Court opted not to suspend Crawford in October.
December 03, 2018
Stefan Passantino, now with Michael Best, said few people had a grasp of their legal obligations during the opening days of the administration.
November 30, 2018
A Gwinnett County jury issued the verdict against Lawrenceville business Classic Millwork Designs after workers improperly installed a third-floor dormer window that fell from its frame when a local homebuilder was trying to close it—and caused him to plummet to his death.
November 30, 2018
The settlement comes a day after the Democratic Party sued the secretary of state after absentee ballots for December's runoff elections were sent out late.
November 29, 2018
The lending officer admitted to withdrawing $50,000 at a time from reserve funds over five years. Prosecutors said the money was used to pay for personal expenses.
November 29, 2018
Georgia's acting secretary of state settled the federal lawsuit less than 24 hours after it was filed.
November 28, 2018
Asian Americans Advancing Justice is asking a federal judge in Atlanta for a temporary restraining order that would stop poll workers from enforcing a Georgia law the group says violates the federal Voting Rights Act by limiting voters' use of interpreters.
November 27, 2018
Former lawyer Timothy Cobb promised investors he was developing a fantasy football game for the Georgia Lottery. Prosecutors say Cobb's promises were the fantasy, not football.
November 27, 2018
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Atlanta Tuesday by former staff members of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' campaign.
November 26, 2018
Lawsuit claims that election results revealed an anomaly—that more voters skipped voting for lieutenant governor on the state's electronic voting machines than in any other statewide race.
November 21, 2018
Democrat Stacey Abrams promised her organization will file a lawsuit as early as next week to reform what she called “gross mismanagement” of an election that left her about 17,000 votes shy of a mandated runoff. That would join seven other pending election lawsuits.
November 15, 2018
Judge Leigh May said the campaign’s equal protection claim “rests on a single sentence without any detailed analysis of the complicated legal principles the Court must resolve.
November 15, 2018
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones has ordered that absentee ballots in Georgia's 159 counties rejected for birth date errors be restored and tallied as litigation over Georgia's gubernatorial election results continues to unfold.
November 13, 2018
U.S. District Judge Leigh May has ordered Gwinnett County to verify any absentee ballots rejected because of an incorrect or omitted birth year, saying that to do so violates state and federal law.
November 13, 2018
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ordered Georgia's new secretary of state to direct all Georgia counties with more than 100 provisional ballots, including 92 counties that have already certified their results, to "engage in a good faith review" of the eligibility of the voters who cast them. The order could expand the pool of valid ballots that remain to be counted by thousands. She also postponed certification of the midterm election results until as late as Nov. 20 and no earlier than Friday.
November 08, 2018
Democrat Josh McLaurin flipped the Sandy Springs state House seat held for a decade by Wendell Willard, a Republican attorney who chaired the Judiciary Committee.
November 07, 2018
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' campaign has lawyered up and will, if needed, litigate to count what the campaign claims may be thousands of still uncounted mail-in absentee and provisional ballots. Just over 15,000 votes could deprive Secretary of State Brian Kemp of winning the governor's race outright and force him into a runoff with Abrams next month.
November 06, 2018
Already a defendant in multiple lawsuits stemming from the state's policies on processing voter registrations, absentee ballots and election security, Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, is named in a new suit seeking to strip him of any continuing involvement in the midterm election.
November 06, 2018
David Cross, of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, and Atlanta attorney Bruce Brown separately flagged the online flaw for Secretary of State Brian Kemp and the FBI.
November 05, 2018
Since the litigation of the 2000 presidential race resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Georgia Republicans have organized legal teams to be ready to litigate close races, and the Democrats have followed suit.
November 02, 2018
A federal judge outlined orders for allowing voters to prove their citizenship if needed as Tuesday's election nears.
November 01, 2018
The state GOP agreed in the settlement agreement to stop referring to Josh McLaurin—an associate at Krevolin & Horst and a candidate for state House District 51—as being under criminal investigation.
October 31, 2018
Griffin Circuit Superior Court Judge Robert M. "Mack" Crawford is accused of stealing more than $15,000 in unclaimed funds from the court registry.
October 31, 2018
U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May said efforts to postpone her absentee ballot directive would violate absentee voters' due process rights.
October 25, 2018
The move comes as the state prepares to appeal a federal judge's order barring election officials across Georgia from rejecting absentee ballots because of alleged signature discrepancies.
October 25, 2018
Attorney Bruce Brown said reports by the secretary of state that half of Georgia’s counties—including some of the state’s most populous—have not rejected any absentee ballots in advance of the Nov. 6 election are “implausible.”
October 24, 2018
U.S. District Judge Leigh May directed Secretary of State Brian Kemp to instruct election officials and county boards of elections that absentee ballots with alleged voter signature mismatches should be marked as “provisional” rather than rejected.
October 24, 2018
The state Judicial Qualifications Commission has petitioned the state Supreme Court to suspend Griffin Circuit Superior Court Judge Robert M. "Mack" Crawford until the ethics charges and an ongoing criminal investigation focusing on him are resolved.
October 23, 2018
In a five-page order issued Tuesday, District Judge Amy Totenberg granted the stay, even though she said the secretary of state's counsel “have not provided a sound legal basis” that she erred in not dismissing the lawsuit.
October 22, 2018
The appeals court reversed U.S. District Judge Richard Story's 2017 decision that the state of Georgia could copyright its annotated legal code, which a nonprofit had posted online for free.
October 19, 2018
Outgoing lawmaker Earl Ehrhart contends that the constitutional rights of student athletes at public colleges and universities are more limited than their fellow students because they are representatives of government-funded institutions and, by extension, of the government that funds them.
October 18, 2018
Atlanta attorney Bruce Brown said he has taken on litigation against Georgia officials in order to protect students' rights to protest and Georgians' right not just to vote but to have their ballots counted.
October 17, 2018
The lawsuit comes after the GOP was warned that a mailer sent out by the party claiming a Democratic candidate was under criminal investigation was libelous and actionable.
October 16, 2018
The lawsuit contends that too many absentee ballots are being rejected for arbitrary or capricious reasons without voters' knowledge.
October 15, 2018
Attorney Josh McLaurin, a Democrat, is threatening to sue his Republican opponent over two mailers McLaurin claims are false.
October 12, 2018
Civil rights groups claim that Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor on the Republican ticket, has used his authority to suppress tens of thousands of voter registrations.
October 09, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta has asked the Supreme Court of Georgia questions regarding the state's civil verdict apportionment law.
October 08, 2018
The Eleventh Circuit has asked for a ruling on the state’s apportionment statute and a determination as to whether members of the bank’s board of directors should be held “jointly and severally liable."
October 08, 2018
Richard Robbins, founder of the Robbins Law Group, said that lobbying affiliate RGR has recruited two well-known nonlawyer lobbyists to augment the work of firm lawyers who cut their legal teeth in the political arena.
October 04, 2018
Nearly two dozen Georgia law professors say Kavanaugh’s temperament and bias amid sexual assault allegations make him unfit to sit on the nation’s highest court.
October 03, 2018
The motion for a preliminary injunction comes two weeks after the federal judge refused to issue an injunction forcing the state to junk its computer voting machines that have been in use since 2002 in favor of paper ballots.
October 02, 2018
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg scolded lawyers representing the music recording industry and their opposing counsel for "a glut of issues slathered on the court" and an "onslaught of motions" that has stalled the case.
October 01, 2018
A debate on the agency's constitutionality has surfaced in an ongoing ethics case against Superior Court Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford of the Griffin Judicial Circuit.
September 27, 2018
The Cherokee Sheriff’s Office “remains confident” that Gary Wayne Farris’ death “was not a stranger-on-stranger crime and Mr. Farris knew the suspects.”
September 26, 2018
Atlanta whistleblower lawyer Marlan Wilbanks said that his clients filed the first cases in 2009 that led to Tuesday's $262 million settlement against Hospital Management Associates.
September 24, 2018
Robert T. Thompson Jr. was sentenced to six months in prison for taking payments from clients facing foreclosure, then failing to follow through on the work.
September 21, 2018
A federal judicial screening committee is accepting applications for a federal judicial post in the Northern District of Georgia that will open Dec. 1 when U.S. District Judge Richard Story takes senior status.
September 20, 2018
A federal judge in Macon on Thursday refused to throw out Sandersville resident Anne King's abuse of authority lawsuit against her ex-husband—a captain in the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
September 20, 2018
Pike County Superior Court Judge Mack Crawford is fighting back against charges accusing him of impermissibly laying claim to more than $15,000 that had been in the clerk registry for 16 years.
September 19, 2018
A Superior Court judge tossed the primary election results for Georgia House District 28, saying Rep. Dan Gasaway presented sufficient evidence to call the election results into question.
September 19, 2018
State officials are appealing the ruling, arguing the suit should be dismissed because they are immune from liability.
September 18, 2018
Judge Totenberg warned Georgia’s election officials that further delay addressing the challenges facing the state’s election system are not tolerable.
September 13, 2018
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg said she faces “a Catch-22” in balancing disturbing testimony from cybersecurity experts that Georgia's election infrastructure is vulnerable to hackers and may already have been compromised against public officials who say that converting to paper ballots would result in a chaotic, error-prone and untrustworthy midterm election.
September 11, 2018
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg will hear from academics, cybersecurity experts and public officials during an all-day hearing over whether the state should use paper ballots during the midterm elections.
September 10, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the state Court of Appeals and restored judicial immunity to the former chief judge of DeKalb County Recorder's Court, which was abolished three years ago.
September 07, 2018
A former KSU cheerleader has sued university officials, a former state representative and the county sheriff, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated when cheerleaders were barred from the playing field during the national anthem.
September 06, 2018
Oscar Williams Jr. siphoned nearly $12,000 from the accounts of Cobb County real estate firm Perrie & Associates, where he worked for two years. He was sentenced last week to a three-year prison term and faces similar charges in Fulton County and in Rockville, Maryland.
September 05, 2018
After 20 years on the federal bench in Atlanta, U.S. District Judge Richard Story says taking senior status will save him a brutal commute—and add a needed extra pair of hands when a new judge is appointed to replace him.
September 05, 2018
Attorneys representing hundreds of consumer plaintiffs whose financial and personal information was exposed in a massive data breach at Equifax last year challenged arguments by the credit bureau's lawyers that no one suffered harm, and if they did, Equifax is not at fault.
August 21, 2018
Lawyers representing Georgia voters and a Colorado coalition agree they want a federal judge to force the Georgia secretary of state to return to paper ballots for the November election. But they disagree on how to do it.
August 15, 2018
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp pushed back Tuesday against a pending motion in federal court in Atlanta to junk the state's computerized voting.
August 10, 2018
Freeman Mathis & Gary attorneys defending Clayton County, Georgia, in a discrimination fight over sexual orientation say the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit got it right in a finding that discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation is not prohibited under federal law.
August 10, 2018
A federal case in Atlanta overseeing a push for paper ballots in the November election includes an affidavit from a Maryland election judge, who said the switch to paper ballots there made the elections easier to conduct.
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