Judge clears way for governor to replace DeKalb school board members
A federal judge has lifted a temporary restraining order that barred Governor Nathan Deal from suspending six members of the DeKalb County Board of Education, removing a legal barrier that last week...
View ArticleEx-bank VP sentenced to seven years
A former vice president and senior commercial loan officer of the failed FirstCity Bank of Stockbridge was sentenced earlier this week to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in the...
View ArticleFeds Arrest Foursome on Sex Trafficking Charges
Federal authorities in Atlanta announced today that agents have arrested four Mexican nationals and dismantled what they describe as a sex trafficking ring here. Three defendants , all of Tenancingo...
View ArticleEEOC Sues T-Mobile Alleging Religious Discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Atlanta has sued T-Mobile USA, saying that the telecommunications company engaged in religious discrimination when it fired a new employee rather...
View ArticleFederal Jury Awards Exel Employee $500,000 in Sex Discrimination Case
A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded a female employee of Exel Corp. $500,000 after determining that the company denied her a promotion because she was a woman, the Atlanta office of the U.S. Equal...
View ArticleFeds: Atlanta attorney admits to stealing over $300k from clients.
This news release (below) from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta caught our eye, especially given that earlier this week we reported on an unrelated case in which clients claim a lawyer stole...
View ArticleEx-school maintenance worker sentenced on child porn charges
A former school maintenance worker was sentenced Thursday to a charge of receiving child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon announced. Josh Ensley, 52, of Tucker...
View ArticleCo-founder of start-up tech company sentenced for fraud
The co-founder of Geometrix, a former metro Atlanta start-up company, was sentenced Tuesday for defrauding his investors of approximately $835,000, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of...
View ArticleLicensing MLK’s “Dream” speech
The Poynter Institute’s website reports that MSNBC has obtained a license from Martin Luther King Jr.’s family to air his “I have a dream” speech in its entirety tonight. This issue was hotly litigated...
View ArticleForsyth council members plead to taking bribes
Two members of the Forsyth City Council in Monroe County have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in a bid-rigging scheme that was, in part, intended to rescue one councilman’s home from foreclosure,...
View ArticleInmates’ lawyers want “coercive fines” against Fulton County, sheriff over...
Citing dangerous conditions fueled by understaffing and chronic overcrowding, the Southern Center for Human Rights has asked a federal judge to hold the Fulton County Commission and Sheriff Ted Jackson...
View ArticleU.S. judge rejects Georgia motion to stay election date-change ruling
A federal judge in Atlanta has refused to allow the state of Georgia to leave next year’s scheduled July election primary in place while it appeals his decision resetting the election nearly two months...
View ArticleEx-Coke executive indicted on fraud, money-laundering charges
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted a former senior account executive with The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta on charges of fraud and money-laundering, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District...
View ArticleAtlantic story focuses on lack of diversity in Eleventh Circuit
In an article in The Atlantic on President Obama’s appointment of federal judges and race, author Andrew Cohen writes that what he describes as the president’s failure to nominate more black candidates...
View ArticleBanking groups file brief supporting Integrity Bank officers
Two Georgia banking trade associations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing defendants in a case involving one of the state’s failed banks that is now being reviewed by the U.S. Court of...
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