By Cedra Mayfield | May 2, 2024
Meeting minutes attributed the challenger's candidacy disqualification to an untimely dispute of a banking error that resulted in a returned qualifying fees check.
By Alex Anteau | May 2, 2024
Defendant-appellant counsel Matt Friedlander said waiving the Civil Practice Statute was "a legally inert proclamation … like Michael Scott standing up and saying 'I declare bankruptcy.' It's funny, but it doesn't mean anything."
By Mason Lawlor | May 2, 2024
"[T]he harm from the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the defense of accident was compounded by the trial court's express instruction that the jury must 'disregard' that accident was a key legal principle," Georgia Supreme Court Justice Nels Peterson said.
By Alex Anteau | May 1, 2024
"I don't know that we really should care about policy," said Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard. "It's only what the statute says, and you may be right on that, you may not be right on that, but that's what I'm not getting."
By Cedra Mayfield | May 1, 2024
Judicial misconduct proceedings for Middle Georgia Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Robert S. Reeves have been scheduled for June 17-20 at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.
By Cedra Mayfield | May 1, 2024
"Mr. Davis must be resident of Georgia," argued respondent counsel Bryan Tyson of The Election Law Group in Atlanta. "If he's not a resident of Georgia, what other state is he a resident of?"
By Alex Anteau | April 29, 2024
"I was a little more concerned about the pictures because to me if you'd had any of the pictures that the city of Atlanta employees went out and took … showing the water meter lid, you could have had some demonstration of what it looked like irrespective of whether there's a possibility somebody some work or changed it on a day that we can't prove. Yet that's all gone," said Presiding Judge Sarah Doyle.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | April 29, 2024
John Barrow said he believes Georgians have a state constitutional right to abortion and that voters would boost their chances of restoring broader access to abortion by doing something they've never done before: defeating an incumbent state justice.
By Cedra Mayfield | Alex Anteau | April 25, 2024
"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.
By Cedra Mayfield | April 25, 2024
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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