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August 31, 2011 |

Judge asks AVLF to help in unusual case

Tamara S. Caldas has represented plenty of tenants in civil disputes with landlords as the deputy director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. But serving as a victim advocate in a criminal case for almost 100 low-income tenants made homeless by a neglectful landlord is a first for her.Fulton County Magistrate Judge Sterling P.
8 minute read
April 29, 2004 |

Nearly $6M Awarded in Coweta in Two Days

Richmond [email protected]' lawyers last week reaped millions of dollars in Coweta County State Court from what turned out to be a very generous jury pool.Over three days, in two successive suits before Judge John H. Cranford, Coweta jurors awarded a total of $5.75 million to plaintiffs in driving related cases.
5 minute read
July 06, 2011 |

Court: No liability for motel owner

The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4�????3 that a motel doesn't have a legal duty to check on a guest's welfare at his worried wife's request.The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah.
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February 12, 2002 |

Baltimore Football Player Faces New Civil Suit Over Stabbing Deaths

Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis could face a second trial in Atlanta, this time in a civil suit that seeks to hold him responsible for the deaths of two men stabbed in a brawl after the 2000 Super Bowl. Lewis pleaded guilty during his June 2000 trial to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer in exchange for the state dropping two murder counts against him. Now, the grandmother of one victim wants monetary damages.
6 minute read
June 10, 2009 |

Media, abortion clinic spar over sealing lawsuit

In a case of first impression involving two hot-button issues-abortion and press freedom-lawyers on Wednesday sparred over whether the general potential for danger stemming from media coverage of legal action against an abortion clinic is sufficient to justify sealing the court proceedings. "There is cause for grave concern for the potential for danger," argued Ashley D.
6 minute read
November 16, 1999 |

Judge Wants Georgia Lt. Gov. Medical Records

Georgia Lt. Gov. Mark F. Taylor must disclose the doctors he's seen and why, a judge ruled in Taylor's $1 million defamation action against Mitch J. Skandalakis, his 1998 opponent. Taylor is suing Skandalakis for a campaign ad suggesting that Taylor had a lingering drug problem. The ad featured a sign for an Atlanta drug treatment center and a Taylor look-alike in a tattered robe shuffling down a hallway and collapsing.
6 minute read
March 23, 1999 |

Time Settles Libel Case It Once Won at Trial

Court-ordered mediation has settled a libel case an Georgia man brought against Time magazine for falsely identifying him as an international terrorist. Time won the case in a federal trial in 1996, but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, citing an erroneous jury instruction. Lawyers for the magazine and plaintiff confirm that the case settled, but say the terms are confidential. Michael Schafer had sued Time for using his photograph with a controversial story on the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flig
3 minute read
December 29, 2003 |

Old Faces Fade, New Ones Battle

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