/georgia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Georgia Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:34:13 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353942?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353942 The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and dozens of other affiliated legal organizations urged the First Circuit on Monday to uphold a Massachusetts federal judge's decision blocking President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, saying the White House order is unconstitutional and would "disproportionately harm" Asian American communities. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:29:39 +0000 /georgia/articles/2354060?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2354060 Actor Derek Dixon has accused Tyler Perry of sexually harassing and assaulting him while he was a series regular on the media mogul's political drama, "The Oval," and then retaliating against Dixon when he didn't reciprocate Perry's unwanted advances, according to the actor's $260 million lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:28:24 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353990?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353990 The Cannabis Regulators Association, an international organization of government officials who oversee marijuana and hemp policy, on Monday announced its new executive board. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:37:22 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353677?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353677 The Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld an early win for an auto transport company and one of its drivers who allegedly injured another employee in a crash, ruling that his only path to resolving the dispute ran through the Peach State's workers' compensation statute. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:44:05 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353658?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353658 A real estate marketing company and a lead generation business were hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court by a woman who alleges they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:28:49 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353675?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353675 The former attorney of a onetime Georgia county auditor cannot recover attorney fees from her earlier representation of the auditor in a whistleblower suit, a federal judge has ruled, finding she failed to prove she was prevented from fully and fairly litigating her case. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:19:23 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353361?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353361 A Berkshire Hathaway unit can't use misdirection to duck a negligence suit claiming the insurer's failure to defend a negligence lawsuit against a Georgia personal injury law firm led to a $2.6 million default judgment against the firm, according to a recent filing in Georgia federal court. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:10:30 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353662?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353662 A panel of the California State Bar Court's Review Department has affirmed the March 2024 recommended disbarment of President Donald Trump's former attorney, John Eastman, over attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:02:12 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353429?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353429 Delta Air Lines Inc. and Endeavor Air Inc. are asking a Georgia federal court to either stay or transfer a man's suit over injuries suffered in the Delta Flight 4819 crash earlier this year in Toronto, saying the court should wait until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decides whether to move it and similar suits to an MDL. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:58:44 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353695?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353695 Attorneys general from 55 U.S. states and territories on Monday backed Purdue Pharma's $7.4 billion deal to settle opioid injury claims against the company and the Sackler family, almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Purdue's previous plan to end litigation over its role in the opioid epidemic. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:22:09 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353671?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353671 Delta Air Lines and a staffing firm failed to pay a worker overtime wages despite expecting her to fulfill the duties of two full-time positions and work more than 40 hours per week, she said in a complaint in Georgia federal court. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:56:07 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353472?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353472 Shaw Industries, Mohawk Industries, 3M Co. and several other major carpet manufacturers and chemical makers face a trio of new lawsuits accusing them of contaminating soil, dust and water across north Georgia with so-called forever chemicals. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:56:45 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353248?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353248 A California federal judge on Friday narrowed the pool of cases set for the first bellwether trials in sprawling multidistrict litigation by school districts and personal injury plaintiffs over claims social media is addictive, choosing six bellwether school districts in Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina and Arizona. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:08:03 +0000 /georgia/articles/2352554?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2352554 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Real Estate Authority — including an inside look at California's Builder's Remedy, aggressive moves by South Korean mezzanine lenders, and why one BigLaw hospitality leader says hotels are "scared to death."  Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:11:03 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353147?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353147 A proposed class of home sellers urged a Missouri federal court to deny two brokerages' second request to stay proceedings against them in a consolidated antitrust broker fees class action while they finalize a parallel settlement in what sellers have called "copycat" proceedings in Georgia. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:06:41 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353425?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353425 A Georgia-based bank agreed to settle a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully forced former workers out of its employee stock ownership plan, preventing them from receiving their share of a $23.3 million dividend on company stock, according to a filing Friday in federal court. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:47:55 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353273?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353273 A former officer for an investment company was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison Friday for the recruiting and public-facing role he played in an investment scheme that took more than $1 million from victims. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:17:25 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353197?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353197 A Swedish medical device company has sued Georgia-based MedWay Group Inc. in federal court for allegedly infringing its patents for foam dressings used in wound care and management. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:07:27 +0000 /georgia/articles/2352801?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2352801 An Eleventh Circuit panel has sided with a county-level Georgia Republican Party and reversed a federal district court's dismissal of the party's suit, which looked to vindicate its right to exclude purportedly anti-Trump candidates from qualifying for local office on the GOP ticket. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:41:05 +0000 /georgia/articles/2353309?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2353309 A Georgia superior court judge who's in the midst of an ethics trial over misconduct allegations urged the state's judicial ethics commission Friday to toss the charges against her, saying that investigators never disclosed their financial backing of one of her electoral opponents.