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.

Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold D. Melton announced will step down on July 1, in the middle of his term.

The chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court calls the backlog of criminal cases "meaningfully bad" — and says some people "who are waiting for trial in jail for a year under the presumption of being innocent until proven guilty."

The three former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies who killed Eurie Lee Martin in 2017 are no longer immune from prosecution and will likely to go to trial on murder charges sometime next year.

Gov. Brian Kemp has announced his pick for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court that was at the center of two lawsuits after a sitting justice announced early this year that he would step down from the bench last month.

The Georgia Supreme Court says that a Superior Court judge was wrong in applying the state’s "stand your ground" law when he granted criminal immunity to three former Washington County sheriff’s deputies who tasered Eurie Martin to death in 2017.  

The Georgia Supreme Court is deciding whether to uphold a 2018 state law that would prevent an election for a local district attorney this year. The law allows Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, to fill vacant seats if the incumbent retires before the election, and the appointee wouldn't have to face voters until 2022. 

With calls for social justice sweeping the nation, the chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday said he understands the frustrations expressed by so many because for too long in the nation’s history the “law has not always been on the side of African Americans.”

Two men who shot and killed an unarmed black jogger in Coastal Georgia said they did so in accordance with Georgia's citizen's arrest law.

Behind the bench in Georgia's Supreme Court, there is an inscription on the wall. It reads "Fiat justitia ruat caelum". It's Latin for "Let justice be...

First, one of the first African-American elementary schools in Atlanta was recently slated for destruction. But after outcry a piece of the structure...