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April 17, 2026
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday announced appointments for judgeships, district attorney and solicitor general posts, including naming the managing partner of Browning Browning & Gilkinson LLC and a municipal court judge to fill two judicial vacancies.
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April 17, 2026
United Parcel Service Inc. should have to repay consumers for the tariffs they paid on certain imported products following the U.S. Supreme Court's holding that those tariffs weren't authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.
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April 16, 2026
Twenty-five U.S. states are looking at passing laws to make artificial intelligence companies face liability claims in civil suits if they fail to protect consumers who interact with chatbots, while another three states have already enacted protections, according to a citizens group's new legislative tracker.
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April 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday rejected a constitutional challenge to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act by three drug traffickers who were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of the Dominican Republic, citing binding precedent that the felonies clause of the U.S. Constitution authorizes their prosecution.
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April 16, 2026
A power lineman told a Georgia appeals court Thursday that an engineering company he says caused him injury by failing to ensure a worksite feeder line was de-energized should face his lawsuit alleging the company had an obligation to keep him safe.
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April 16, 2026
The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday ordered a Georgia bank holding company to retain and raise capital as part of a consent order tied to its small business and agricultural lending that examiners raised concerns about earlier this year.
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April 16, 2026
A telecommunications tower builder has sued Georgia's Clayton County after officials rejected its construction request over risk of harm to the community, saying the county's denial lacked evidence for its reasoning.
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April 16, 2026
Georgia is urging a Fulton County judge to rethink his ruling that President Donald Trump and others' motions seeking more than $16 million in legal fees in the state's election interference case were covered by civil, not criminal, procedures, saying the designation would have "far-reaching implications."
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April 16, 2026
Carpet manufacturer Shaw Industries has asked a Georgia state court judge for permission to immediately appeal his refusal to dismiss a suit accusing it of forever-chemicals pollution before the suit goes any further.
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April 16, 2026
Dallas boutique Hosch & Morris PLLC closed Wednesday amid its co-founder's ongoing disappearance since he went hiking in Georgia, with the firm's remaining two attorneys joining Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal LLP.
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April 16, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals appeared open Thursday to revising the intersections of tort law and the state's workers' compensation claims process, and in the process potentially reviving a wrongful death suit from the spouse of a Six Flags worker who was killed on the job.
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April 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed an $80 million judgment against The Lane Construction Corp. after finding its joint venture partner, Skanska USA Civil Southeast Inc., acted in the best interests of the venture when it refused Lane's calls to back out of a $2.3 billion central Florida highway project.
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April 16, 2026
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Thursday confirmed Multi-Color Corp.'s reorganization plan less than three months after the label-maker sought Chapter 11 protection, allowing the company to slash $3.9 billion in debt and raise $889 million in new capital.
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April 15, 2026
California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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April 15, 2026
There is enough evidence from which a jury could conclude that Amneal Pharmaceuticals participated in a conspiracy to fix the price of an epilepsy medication, but not enough to show it participated in the overarching antitrust conspiracy alleged by dozens of state attorneys general, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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April 15, 2026
Georgia's State Election Board expressed frustration with state legislators Wednesday, saying their failure to pass a replacement method for vote tabulation that does not involve QR codes before ending the legislative session has created a crisis for election officials across the state.
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April 15, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday threw out a Georgia federal judge's ruling that the city of Atlanta's signage ordinance was illegal under the First Amendment, holding that the lower court "erred as to both theories" advanced by a local billboard owner.
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April 15, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel Wednesday backed a railroad's win in a fight with local residents opposing the condemnation of their property for new construction, finding insufficient evidence to overturn a ruling from the state's utility regulatory body that greenlighted the taking.
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April 15, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal Wednesday of a urologist's suit claiming Emory University fired him for refusing to undergo a mental health probe, ruling the professional coaching sessions he was asked to attend did not amount to medical exams.
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April 14, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge Tuesday denied a request by dozens of U.S. states to freeze their antitrust case against generic-drug manufacturers, a pause the states argued would allow the parties to focus on settlement talks rather than pending discovery and motion deadlines.
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April 14, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday backed JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s early win in a lawsuit brought by a jet chartering company alleging it was defamed as it was placed on an internal blacklist, ruling that the bank hadn't made any false statements in explaining to customers why it blocked the company's transactions.
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April 14, 2026
The former chief operating officer of Atlanta's High Museum of Art has been charged with stealing from a federally funded program over allegations that he embezzled more than $600,000 from the institution, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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April 14, 2026
Medical providers are urging a Georgia federal court to deny United's bid for an early win in its case seeking a declaration that the providers' purported attempt to claw back reimbursements for out-of-network services are preempted, arguing that state-law claims involving employee benefits aren't preempted by federal benefits law.
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April 14, 2026
American Industrial Partners has agreed to acquire Avanos Medical Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at nearly $1.3 billion, a take-private deal steered by three law firms, Avanos announced Tuesday.
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April 14, 2026
A man who pled guilty to threatening the wife of a Georgia-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer should get a sentence of four to 10 months, federal prosecutors told an Atlanta federal court, adding that the government was amenable to home detention instead of prison.