JURIST

JULY 13, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) does not preempt a Georgia man from making a failure to warn claim in his lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup. Carson then sued Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. Arbery was unarmed. The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment.

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MARCH 15, 2023

” The post “Georgia Judge Avoids Removal Over Ethical Concerns, For Now; Judge purportedly mistreated clients as an attorney; Code of Judicial Conduct only applies to judges” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. The court ruled that Article 3 standing’s redressability element is satisfied if the plaintiffs’ claim is based on a completed violation of a legal right.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Kentucky , the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to strike jurors in a criminal trial because of their race. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld that decision.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 3, 2021

“Despite favorable high court ruling, Georgia’s water wars far from over”: Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

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LegalReader

JULY 1, 2022

appeals court recently ruled that a discrimination lawsuit against Georgia Pacific LLC. can proceed.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that conviction appeals related to the recent U.S. Parish, an indigenous man accused of committing the killing on Choctaw Reservation land, had been convicted in state court by a jury of second-degree murder in March 2012 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 8, 2021

“Supreme Court Backs Georgia College Student’s Free Speech Suit; The 8-to-1 ruling said courts may hear suits seeking only nominal damages; Chief Justice John G. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Roberts alone in dissent as Supreme Court backs student in religious-speech case.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2022

50 years ago today, the Supreme Court in their opinion on Furman v. Georgia halted the death penalty across the country in response to a set of capital punishment cases. Does that mean that since Furman, states have perfected the death penalty, making the process consistent and nondiscriminatory as the Court ordered?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2024

Later, he was transferred to an immigration detention center in Georgia, where he remained in custody until February 2024, when he was deported to Colombia. According to Juan Carlos Villamizar, Salvatore Mancuso’s advisor, this replacement of security measures was initiated following an order issued by the Constitutional Court.

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Trademark & Copyright Law

MAY 8, 2020

On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Accordingly, copyright protection does not extend to annotations in the State of Georgia’s official code because of its “authors.”. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., The Background.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Because this Court held in Coker v. Georgia that the Eighth Amendment forbids a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman, respondents argue that they could not, in fact, have been sentenced to death, and therefore the statute of limitations for their crimes.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In coverage of the ruling, Orlando Montoya of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports that “ Drug sentencing ruling hinges on definition of simple, common word.” ” Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that “ ‘And’ means ‘and,’ Atlanta federal appeals court rules.”

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Law 360

OCTOBER 14, 2021

million in employment incentive payments and a Tesla of his choosing under his employment contract, the Georgia Court of Appeals held Thursday. The founder and former CEO of a software company is entitled to $5.4

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite palpable anxiety over the racial makeup of the 12 individuals who will decide the fate of 3 men held responsible for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in a suburban Georgia neighborhood in February 2020, the jury selected will consist of 11 white people and only 1 Black person, reports the New York Times.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

” Kennedy brought the case to the district court claiming the school district violated his First Amendment right of free speech. The district court ruled in favor of the that the school district. Kennedy appealed the district court decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the decision.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday vacated and remanded a state trial court ruling that set aside a $10.8 million default judgment against Samsung Electronics America Inc. in a suit filed by a Savannah man after the battery in his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket.

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Law 360

JUNE 28, 2023

A Farmers unit has no coverage obligations to an Uber driver who said she was hit by an underinsured driver and incurred more than $184,000 in medical expenses, a Georgia state appeals court ruled, finding that her use of a fake identity in her driver application barred coverage.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2021

A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled in favor of Martin, and found that O.C.G.A. § She contended that O.C.G.A. § 50-5-85 was constitutional.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Georgia , Coker v. Georgia and Kennedy v. In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled that imposing the death penalty for rape was cruel and unusual punishment. Louisiana that have raised doubts about imposing the death sentence for crimes such as rape. Virginia became the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty in March.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The district court ruled in favor of the petitioners, and Galveston County appealed. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit said that the district court opinion was an error of law. Some courts have ruled in favor of them, while others have denied them.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Two rail unions and Amtrak asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday to hold off on considering the unions' bids for an injunction blocking the rail service's companywide vaccination policy, in the wake of a Georgia federal court ruling blocking a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The case was brought by journalist Abby Martin who was denied a contract as a keynote speaker at Georgia Southern University due to her support of the BDS movement. He found that: Because O.C.G.A. § ” O.C.G.A. 50-5-85-85(a).

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

As gun-control legislation stalls at the federal level, developments in the music festival circuit have underscored the impact of state laws, with Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival, originally set for next month, being canceled because of a Georgia court ruling that prevented organizers from banning guns on festival grounds, reports the Washington Post. (..)

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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MAY 3, 2022

My post: In Key Ruling for Public Access, SCOTUS Says No Copyright In Georgia Code Annotations. Related Links. Documents and stories regarding Malamud’s publication of the SEC EDGAR database. Malamud’s 1993-1994 podcast progenitor, Geek of the Week. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday held that a Georgia sheriff violated sex offenders’ constitutional rights by placing warning signs at their homes during Halloween. Georgia law forbids registered sex offenders from participating in Halloween.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban on Tuesday, voiding certain provisions of the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act. The LIFE Act established certain limitations and provisions surrounding access to abortion within the state of Georgia.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 922(g)(5)(A), the prosecution must prove not only that a defendant knew he had a gun, but also that the defendant knew of his legal status as a prohibited person. In Rehaif v. Closing courtrooms over defendants’ objections. In Waller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The officers sought review by the full 11th Circuit, which disagreed with the panel.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia , which held that that Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination also extends to gay and transgender workers. The post Federal district court rules trans discrimination violates Illinois attorney ethics appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). Cyprus is the first country in Europe that amended its constitution with a view to permitting the use of the English language in court proceedings.

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