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State Judicial Watchdog Has Investigated Municipal Court Council’s New Top Officers

Written by R. Robin McDonald - Fulton County Daily Report | Jul 24, 2020 | News

The new president of the state Council of Municipal Court Judges was privately reprimanded in 2011 by the Judicial Qualifications Commission, which also has ethics charges pending against the council’s newly elected vice president. The two highest-ranking officers of the Council of Municipal Court Judges of Georgia have been the […]

PowerPlan Accused Of Phony Threats In $47M Monopoly Suit

Written by Law360 - Peter Rozovsky | Jul 21, 2020 | News

Law360 (July 21, 2020, 7:42 PM EDT) — Atlanta-based software company PowerPlan Inc. is unfairly monopolizing the market for utility data management and making false threats to ax competition, according to former employees who say PowerPlan is telling clients of their tax consulting business that they have misappropriated its trade […]

Firm Helps Client Obtain Georgia’s First Ever Certificate of Need for a Freestanding Emergency Department

Written by Firm | Jun 1, 2020 | Results

Today, Robbins Firm attorneys Josh Belinfante and Dan Monahan helped Doctors Hospital of Augusta (a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America) secure the first ever Certificate of Need for a freestanding emergency department (FSED) to be issued by the Georgia Department of Community Health.  Doctors Hospital of Augusta overcame all […]

Ga. Voters’ Counsel Can’t Get $6.3M Fees Award

Written by Allison Grande - Law360 | May 26, 2020 | News

Law360 (May 26, 2020, 11:02 PM EDT) — A Georgia federal judge ruled Tuesday that now wasn’t the right time to award plaintiffs’ counsel $6.3 million in fees for helping Georgia voters secure a ruling that barred the state from using an allegedly insecure electronic voting system, citing their revamped […]

Judge rules against delaying Georgia’s June 9 primary again

Written by Mark Niesse - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | May 14, 2020 | News

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that attempted to postpone Georgia’s June 9 primary election because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten leaves the primary date unchanged, with in-person early voting set to begin Monday. Batten wrote that elected Georgia officials have the authority […]

Judge questions whether Georgia ballot postage is an illegal poll tax

Written by Mark Niesse - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Apr 24, 2020 | News

A federal judge appeared skeptical Friday about ordering Georgia’s government to cover the postage cost of returning primary election ballots in a case arguing that it’s an unconstitutional poll tax. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg was deciding whether to revoke the requirement for voters to pay for a 55-cent stamp […]