A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility to run for reelection say they have appealed the Georgia secretary of state's decision that she can appear on the ballot.
In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ordered that Crawford County’s chief magistrate be suspended one month without pay for his role in a physical altercation with a handcuffed, shackled defendant who the judge grabbed after the defendant cussed the judge in court in December 2020.
The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court decision denying a challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp’s appointment of former state Sen. Jesse Stone to a judgeship in Augusta.
The American Tort Reform Association, which lobbies on behalf of corporate civil liability interests, ranked Georgia’s Supreme Court as the third worst “judicial hellhole” in the country for 2021. The group is advocating for new state legislation it claims could save residents and businesses billions.
Georgia Power plans to excavate and remove the ash from 19 ponds and close the other 10 ponds in place. Lawyers for the Sierra Club have argued the PSC failed to take into account Georgia Power’s culpability in creating the coal ash problem to begin with, and thus should not be allowed to pass all of those costs onto customers.
In the case of ACLU, Inc. v. Zeh, the court reversed the state Court of Appeal’s decision affirming the trial court’s denial of the ACLU’s motion and remanded the case to the Court of Appeals with the direction that it send it back to the trial court to rule on Zeh’s discovery motions.
Word that the high court was going back to online proceedings came less than a week after Verda Colvin was sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice during a live ceremony inside the state Capitol and two months after the court resumed conducting in-person hearings at the nearby Nathan Deal Judicial Center.
Gov. Brian Kemp Tuesday named Judge Verda Colvin to fill the vacancy left at the beginning of this month by Harold Melton, who stepped down as the state Supreme Court’s chief justice to enter private practice.
The reshaping of the Georgia Supreme Court under Gov. Brian Kemp continues, as new Chief Justice David Nahmias takes the reins and six finalists vie to fill the court’s third vacancy since 2020.
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled Monday that abortion clinics have a right to operate without fear of landlords filing nuisance lawsuits because they attract protesters.
For the first time since last spring, the Georgia Supreme Court’s nine justices, attorneys, and other courthouse regulars are set to return Wednesday morning for in-person hearings.
In 1988, Georgia banned the executions of intellectually disabled people and now is the only state that has a more substantial burden than “by clear and convincing evidence.”
The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta is exempt from property taxes. A group of Fulton County taxpayers sued the Fulton Board of Tax Assessors in 2017, the year the new home of the Atlanta Falcons opened.
