/georgia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Georgia Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:35:50 +0000 /georgia/articles/2350161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2350161 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Â鶹´«Ã½360 Real Estate Authority — including where the hotel sector stands at the midyear, which states are trying to curb healthcare investment models and what is fueling the surge in the real estate secondaries market. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:29:38 +0000 /georgia/articles/2348947?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2348947 An employee has asked the en banc Eleventh Circuit to rethink its ruling that wholesale restaurant supply store McLane Foodservice Inc. is not liable for injuries suffered by an employee who was set on fire at work by a former partner, arguing it took too narrow a view on foreseeability. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:39:35 +0000 /georgia/articles/2350348?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2350348 A lobbying firm, its owner and an employee have been sued in Georgia federal court by a legal and consulting firm for breach of contract after they allegedly accepted partial payment for but never delivered on a $500,000 deal to arrange meetings with senior White House officials: the president, vice president and secretary of state. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:33:09 +0000 /georgia/articles/2350603?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2350603 A Georgia federal judge signaled Friday that he may leave it up to a jury to decide whether a Peach State voter was defamed by his portrayal as an election fraud operative in the conspiracy movie "2,000 Mules," doubting whether he had enough evidence to prove the film's producers deliberately tried to slander him. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:54:20 +0000 /georgia/articles/2350384?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2350384 The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest to a $44.3 million task order the U.S. Navy issued for engineering and installation services for a new U.S. Space Command facility in Colorado, saying it reasonably weighed proposals two Georgia companies submitted. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /georgia/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:21:42 +0000 /georgia/articles/2350469?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2350469 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. merge, Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV unite, Sanofi buys Blueprint Medicines Corp., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. sells a majority stake in its international tissue business to Suzano. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:18:49 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349847?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349847 More than a dozen Republican attorneys general challenging a Biden-era rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can't keep the rule on the books just because the new administration is unlikely to enforce it. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:13:27 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349365?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349365 The government of Venezuela asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to undo a $17 million default judgment against it over the theft of a Florida man's collection of South American liberator and military general Simón Bolívar's possessions. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:22:54 +0000 /georgia/articles/2348834?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2348834 The Georgia unit of Chinese cryptocurrency mining business Bitmain Technologies Ltd. has asked a Texas federal judge to enforce an approximately $11.3 million arbitral award in a breach of contract dispute against a company that failed to appear at the arbitration hearing. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:22:22 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349766?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349766 Real estate firm Landmark Properties Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action over a May 2025 data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of residents and employees. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:03:33 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349971?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349971 The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday struck down $65 million in punitive damages awarded to a doctor who was defrauded of his investments in a series of restaurants, ruling that the verdict was "grossly excessive" at more than 100 times the value of the compensatory damages awarded by a state court jury. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:10:54 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349773?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349773 Energy construction giant Amec Foster Wheeler and a Georgia power company have reached an agreement ending a lawsuit in which the power company accused Amec of fraud and negligence in the design and construction of power generating equipment at two biofuel plants. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:19:31 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349396?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349396 A former Morris Manning & Martin LLP real estate partner is the latest attorney this year to join Clark Hill PLC and help grow an Atlanta office that opened nearly a year ago, the firm announced Wednesday. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:16:15 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349723?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349723 A Florida lawyer sentenced to 75 months in prison over a COVID-19 loan fraud scheme has asked the Eleventh Circuit to rehear her sentencing en banc, arguing the appellate court should reexamine the district court's so-called Keane statement allegedly disregarding sentencing guidelines. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:04:40 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349334?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349334 The U.S. labor secretary told a U.S. House committee Thursday that the Department of Labor will continue to combat wage theft even with fewer resources after President Donald Trump's administration proposed cutting the number of wage and hour investigators. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:56:41 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349738?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349738 An insurance company that sued a law firm for malpractice in Georgia federal court after paying more than $6.4 million following a worker injury jury verdict against a construction company it insured, said Thursday that it had settled with the firm in connection with its representation of the company. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:56:10 +0000 /georgia/articles/2328074?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2328074 After almost five years of running marathons, I’ve learned that both the race itself and the training process sharpen skills that directly translate to the practice of law, including discipline, dedication, endurance, problem-solving and mental toughness, says Lauren Meadows at Swift Currie. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:07:33 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349591?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349591 A Texas federal judge asked auctioneer Heritage Vintage Sports why it had sued the Atlanta Braves after the team leaked a cease and desist letter to the press in Georgia, saying during a hearing Wednesday in the auctioneer's defamation suit that other parties had certainly challenged the validity of auctioned items before. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:04:38 +0000 /georgia/articles/2349522?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2349522 The owner of an abandoned northwest Georgia chemical plant filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against its former owner-operators alleging that they left hundreds of drums of toxic waste behind, resulting in its new owner facing federal prosecution and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up.