Written by Firm | Apr 4, 2013 | News
A change in Georgia’s laws meant to clarify who is exempt from registering as a lobbyist could make it easier for some lawyers to avoid registering, according to some lawmakers and government transparency proponents. Under House Bill 142, attorneys don’t have to register as long as they are “not compensated […]
Written by Firm | Mar 22, 2013 | News
A case unfolding in Fulton County Superior Court adds a new twist to complaints that police officers use overly tinted windows as a pretext for traffic stops that are actually based on racial or ethnic profiling. An attorney for Deon Grant, the NFL safety who helped power the New York […]
Written by Firm | Feb 28, 2013 | Press
Today’s federal court hearing challenging the constitutionality of Governor Nathan Deal’s efforts to oust six members of the DeKalb County Board of Education marks the latest round in more than a decade of fighting between Georgia governors and fractious local school boards. The state’s last three governors—Roy Barnes, Sonny Perdue […]
Written by Firm | Feb 25, 2013 | News
Gov. Nathan Deal has suggested he’ll suspend six of the nine members of the DeKalb’s troubled school board on Monday, but whether his decision will stick is another story. Hearings are scheduled in state and federal court this week over challenges to a law that gives Deal the power to […]
Written by Firm | Jan 30, 2013 | Updates
The firm represented BLD Productions, LLC, a production company which had contracted with Remote Productions, Inc. (an affiliate of VH-1) regarding a concert in VH-1’s Divas series. BLD agreed to make Aretha Franklin available for the performance, and granted Remote Productions exclusive control over the audio and video distribution of […]
Written by Firm | Jan 9, 2013 | News
The almost half-decade long fight for the Crum & Forster building brought together lawyers for the Georgia Tech Foundation (GTF), private citizens who believe the City of Atlanta is bypassing its own preservation regulations, as well as outside counsels for both the City and the City’s Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) to Fulton County […]
Written by Firm | Jan 6, 2013 | News
A federal judge has halted enforcement of a Georgia law requiring employer-funded health benefit plans to pay employee claims in as little as 15 days. U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction Dec. 31 enjoining amendments to the state’s 14-year-old “prompt […]
