Benham ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court said the state Court of Appeals was wrong to affirm a trial judge's denial of a motion to recuse himself from a case over a city's underground parking garage project.
Thompson ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court this week affirmed a lower court's award of prejudgment interest to the family of a man who was embroiled in a fraudulent wrongful death settlement.
Nahmias ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court's ruling awarding a woman injured in a car accident more than $1.2 million in damages.
Hines ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week that a lower court must reconsider a strip club's request for an injunction against revisions to county ordinances.
Melton ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court last month ruled that a lower court was wrong to rule in favor of Greenville Mayor James Bray in firing two acting city employees.
Hunstein ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred two attorneys found to have used "runners," non-lawyer third-parties who referred clients to their practice.
Carley ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that an appeals court correctly reversed the judgment of a lower court in favor of CSX Transportation Inc.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ordered the removal of a magistrate judge who allegedly smoked marijuana, made derogatory remarks about a fellow judge and threatened to shoot himself, among other things.
Thompson ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court last week ruled that the state's dram shop statute does apply when a convenience store sells closed or packaged containers of alcohol to a noticeably intoxicated adult.
Hines ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, said the state Court of Appeals did not err in concluding that a hotel had no duty to comply with a woman's requests to try to rescue her husband from "medical peril."
Carley ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court was forced to vacate a previous judgment and reverse an appeals court's judgment in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year aimed at protecting vaccine makers from lawsuits.
Nahmias ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court said a lower court did not abuse its discretion in temporarily freezing more than $20 million in assets owned by father-and-son residential housing developers and their companies.
Justice Harold Melton wrote, "Rosenberg never held a timely-accrued right to bring suit against Falling Water for his personal injuries." ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court last week upheld the decision of two lower courts in favor of a builder who was sued by a future homeowner who suffered serious injuries resulting from a deck collapse.
Camp ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday accepted former U.S. District Judge Jack Camp's voluntary surrender of his law license and disbarred former Alapaha Circuit Superior Court Judge Brooks E. Blitch III.
Lanzinger COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio voters elected to keep Supreme Court Justice Judith Lanzinger, a Republican, on the state's high court for another six years.
Nahmias ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a decision by the state's Court of Appeals that says a title insurance company is legally bound to issue the policy it had promised and cover a lender's losses that were caused by fraud.
Hunstein ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court last week reversed the decision of an appeals court, ruling that a group of seven video game machines are not considered illegal gambling devices.
Nahmias ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a state law that keeps the statute of limitations running on medical malpractice claims even if the plaintiff suffers from mental retardation or a mental illness.
It's summer. Even though the days are longer, employers will tell you the work days can get shorter. Legal Newsline takes a look at 10 state supreme court justices who aren't all work and no play.
Joyce ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - A national tort reform group is troubled by a Monday decision from the Georgia Supreme Court that struck down caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits.