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  • November 5, 2024 | Daily Report Online

    High Court to Weigh If Amended Complaints Establish Sovereign Immunity Waiver

    "To allow a waiver as a result of an amendment would strain a court's discretion when the complaint is deficient in the first place," read an appellant brief filed on behalf of Cobb County governmental defendants.

    6 minute read

  • November 2, 2024 | Daily Report Online

    Cobb County Says Over 3K Absentee Ballots Mailed Late, Just Days Before Election

    To deliver the ballots on time, election officials were using U.S. Postal Service express mail and UPS overnight delivery and sending the ballots with prepaid express return envelopes.

    2 minute read

  • October 25, 2024 | National Law Journal

    'Tremendous Outcome': Duane Morris and Blank Rome Reach $102M Settlement With DOJ in Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    "This resolution ensures that the costs of the federal government's cleanup efforts in the Fort McHenry Channel are borne by Grace Ocean and Synergy and not the American taxpayer," said Benjamin C. Mizer, principal deputy associate attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice.

    3 minute read

  • Baltas v. Maiga

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Omar A. Khan, on the brief, Jeffrey A. Dennhardt, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Dennis V. Mancini, Assistant Attorney General, for William Tong, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT.
    Case Number: 22-2898-pr

    Inmate's Ad Seg Reviews Satisfied Due Process; Availability of VADOC Remedies Disputed

  • In re: K.O.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 1080 EDA 2024

    Court vacated decrees involuntarily terminating parental rights where trial court wholesale adopted Office of Children, Youth and Families' proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law without any independent analysis justifying the trial court's decision. Orders of trial court remanded.

  • October 17, 2024 | Daily Report Online

    Republicans Challenge More Than 63K Voters in Georgia, but Few Removed, AP Finds

    Those who allege Georgia's voting rolls are bloated with ineligible voters are trying to change that, filing lawsuits and pushing the State Election Board to order counties to do more.

    7 minute read

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases

  • City of Milton v. Chang et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, (J. Scott Key, LLC), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Simon, Tyler Bridgers, (The Simon Law Frim PC), Atlanta, Jed Manton, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Atlanta, Madeline McNeeley, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Brookhaven, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0802

    Court affirms $30 million verdict against the City of Milton in fatal accident case, rejecting City's claims of sovereign immunity, and orders pre-judgment interest and nunc pro tunc judgment

  • October 4, 2024 | New York Law Journal

    Sidley Austin Scores Landmark Civil Rights Verdict Against Prolonged Solitary Confinement in State Prisons

    "This trial win is significant because it upholds the Eighth Amendment, which is a difficult test. The punitive damages verdict sends a powerful message that the acts that took place here were extreme. We appreciate the jury's decision," Sidley Austin partner and lead trial attorney Sona De told Law.com.

    5 minute read

  • Chinese American Civil Alliance of Greater New York v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2024-10-02
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Joshua P. Thompson, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, on the brief, Glenn E. Roper, Pacific Legal Foundation, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Claude S. Platton and Deborah A. Brenner, on the brief, Philip W. Young, for Hon. Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York. For Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees: Janai S. Nelson, Samuel Spital, Rachel Kleinman, and Kevin Jason, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Jin Hee Lee and Molly M. Cain, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia; Sarah Hinger, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Stefanie D. Coyle, Arthur Eisenberg, and Emma Hulse, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Francisca D. Fajana, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, New York, New York; Elizabeth A. Ritvo, Brown Rudnick LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; John G. Doyle, Brown Rudnick LLP, Washington, District of Columbia; Caitlin Felise C. Ramiro and Samuel J. Hickey, Brown Rudnick LLP, New York, New York, on the brief, Michaele N. Turnage Young, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia.
    Case Number: 22-2649

    Court Erred in Finding Aggregate Disparate Impact by SHS Policy Not Shown