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  • July 14, 2025

    Judge Suggests Pruning Ex-Turner Sports Worker's Bias Suit

    A Georgia federal magistrate judge said Monday that聽the court should trim a former Turner Sports human resources employee's lawsuit claiming she was denied severance benefits when she quit following the merger of Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia, saying the worker couldn't support allegations that an executive's statements caused her harm.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ga. Contractor Denies Harassment Claims In EEOC Lawsuit

    A Georgia construction contractor has denied claims from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that a former employee of the company faced years of sexual harassment and groping from its owner and CEO.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ga. County Wants 11th Circ. To Nix Trans Deputy's Health Win

    A Georgia county urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a transgender sheriff's deputy's trial court win on claims that denying coverage for a vaginoplasty constituted discrimination in violation of Title VII, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a Tennessee state ban on gender-affirming care for minors supported its appeal.

  • July 14, 2025

    Fla. Says High Court Rulings Back Trans Care Medicaid Ban

    Florida told the Eleventh Circuit that recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings affirm the legality of a state law banning Medicaid payments for gender-affirming medical care, arguing its restrictions mirror a similar Tennessee law upheld by the justices because it centers on gender dysphoria diagnoses, not one's sex.

  • July 14, 2025

    11th. Circ. Rules Ga. Strip Search Was Illegal, Nixes Immunity

    A full Eleventh Circuit ruled that Georgia Department of Corrections officers are not entitled to immunity in the case of a woman who was strip-searched while visiting her husband in prison, saying the search was unreasonable and violated her Fourth Amendment rights.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ga. Judge Calls Atty 'Unworthy Of Belief' As Ethics Case Ends

    A Georgia superior court judge facing ethics charges on Monday urged the state's judicial watchdog to either privately reprimand or suspend her for no more than 30 days if it decides punishment is needed in the case brought against her by the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission.聽

  • July 14, 2025

    11th Circ. Won't Reexamine Sentence Of Convicted Fla. Atty

    The Eleventh Circuit has rejected a Florida lawyer's request to reconsider her 75-month prison sentence for a COVID-19 loan fraud scheme.

  • July 14, 2025

    Home Depot Faces Suit Over Worker Moonlighting Ban

    Home Depot Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action from a former retail worker who alleged that the company is violating Washington state labor laws by banning its lowest-earning employees from moonlighting at second jobs.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ex-City Workers' Disability Bias Suit Should Fail, Judge Says

    An Atlanta suburb shouldn't have to face a suit alleging it fired two employees because of their stress and anxiety, a Georgia federal magistrate judge recommended, saying neither worker could overcome explanations that poor performance cost her the job.

  • July 11, 2025

    SEC Says $140M Ponzi Funded Lifestyle, Campaign Donations

    The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sued First Liberty Building & Loan LLC and owner Edwin Brant Frost IV in Georgia federal court, alleging Frost defrauded 300 investors out of $140 million in a Ponzi scheme that fueled Frost's lavish lifestyle and his donations to Republican campaigns totaling six figures.

  • July 11, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: NYC Zombies, Nashville Tax, Hospo Deals

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from 极速赛车 Real Estate Authority 鈥� including attorney insights into New York City's zombie building scene, a BigLaw specialist's view of Nashville's rise in property taxes, and the firms that guided the top hospitality deals in the first half of 2025.

  • July 11, 2025

    Ga. Judge Pauses Discovery In Suit Against Ex-Atlanta IG

    A Georgia federal judge has stayed discovery in a case in which a lobbyist and city contractor sued Atlanta's former inspector general for allegedly violating state law by issuing subpoenas for the lobbyist's bank records in order to bolster a frivolous corruption probe.

  • July 11, 2025

    Sales Org. Hits Texas Payment Co. With Contract Suit

    A Texas-based provider of prepaid mobile recharge and payment solutions was sued in Georgia federal court by Boom Commerce, an independent sales organization, over alleged violations of a merchant processing application and agreement for payment processing services.

  • July 11, 2025

    Clorox And Ex-HR Manager Agree To End Race Bias Suit

    Clorox and one of its former human resources managers have agreed to settle the ex-worker's suit alleging she was forced out of her job for refusing to drop racial bias concerns related to the company's hiring practices, according to a joint stipulation filed in federal court.

  • July 11, 2025

    FTC Looks To Extend Pause Of Noncompete Rule Appeal

    The Federal Trade Commission has asked the Fifth Circuit to keep an appeal over the commission's blocked noncompete rule on hold for another 60 days as the agency continues to mull whether it actually wants to defend the rule.

  • July 11, 2025

    Atlanta Atty's Death In Texas Floods Shocks Colleagues

    Josephine Hardin, an Atlanta-based Huff Powell & Bailey attorney who died last week in flash flooding in Texas, is being remembered for making colleagues "laugh out loud, come together, and think deeply about the needs of others" and making an impact as a volunteer at a local legal nonprofit.

  • July 11, 2025

    11th Circ. Won't Reinstate Worker's ERISA Arbitration Award

    A divided Eleventh Circuit panel refused to restore a former water treatment company director's arbitration award of about $129,000 on claims that he should've been offered severance when demoted to a consultant, saying an arbitrator erroneously decided a federal benefits law claim the worker never raised.

  • July 11, 2025

    11th Circ. Revives Black Worker's Promotion Bias Suit

    The Eleventh Circuit revived a Black worker's suit alleging a Georgia county wouldn't promote her to a more senior tax appraisal position out of racial discrimination, ruling that a jury needs to determine whether she was held to higher standards of qualifications than her non-Black peers.

  • July 11, 2025

    Logistics Co., Drivers To Mediate Misclassification Dispute

    A logistics provider that helps manage trailers on company grounds will head to mediation to work toward settling a 650-member collective of drivers' suit accusing it of misclassifying them to avoid paying them overtime wages, a filing in Georgia federal court said.

  • July 10, 2025

    Black Worker Claims Bias At Nuclear Safety Organization

    A nuclear power safety organization repeatedly promoted white men rather than a more qualified Black woman, the worker told a Georgia federal court Thursday, claiming the group has endeavored for years to keep Black employees out of leadership positions.

  • July 10, 2025

    Golfer's Defamation Suits Not Up To Par, 11th Circ. Says

    The Eleventh Circuit won't revive a pair of defamation suits by golfer Patrick Reed against media outlets he accused of defaming him by reporting accusations of cheating and criticism of his association with a Saudi Arabia-backed golf organization.

  • July 10, 2025

    Tyson Says $55M Del. Poultry Plants Win Blocks Ga. Damages

    Tyson Foods wants to block any claim to damages in a poultry rendering company's antitrust lawsuit, telling a Georgia federal judge Wednesday that a Delaware state court already ruled that it overpaid to buy out the company and asserting that precludes any claims that it forced the firm into an underpriced buyout.

  • July 10, 2025