Home » News » States » Georgia »

Georgia Category Archives: Georgia

AGs call for broader exceptions to contraception mandate

April 4, 2013 10:40 AM
By Jessica M. Karmasek

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) — Thirteen state attorneys general are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adopt broader religious exceptions to its controversial contraception mandate. The mandate, which was imposed under the health care law signed … Read More »

Alabama, Colorado, Federal Government, Florida, Georgia, Hot Topics, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, News, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, State AGs, Texas, West Virginia

Ga. AG announces Senate passage of pill mill legislation

March 22, 2013 1:53 PM
By Bryan Cohen

ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens announced Thursday the Georgia Senate approved H.B. 178 to fight the operation of illicit pill mills and prescription drug abuse in the state. The House of Representatives approved the bill last … Read More »

Georgia, News, State AGs, States

EPA, company settle over chemical, pesticide violations

February 5, 2013 10:43 AM
By Stephanie Ostrowski

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Two subsidiaries of the Kemira Group reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violations of chemical and pesticide laws. Alleged violations announced Jan. 24 were against the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act … Read More »

Federal Government, Georgia, News

Ga. SC returns work death case to appellate court

December 10, 2012 11:13 AM
By Nathan Bass

ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court has vacated the Court of Appeals judgment on a consolidated set of cases involving the death of a man in a construction accident and sent the cases back to the appellate court … Read More »

Georgia, State Supreme Courts