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Charges against four Last Exist Network members were dismissed when the Georgia Supreme Court ruled in February that the state's ban on suicide assistance ads was an unconstitutional restriction on speech.
Charges against four Last Exist Network members were dismissed when the Georgia Supreme Court ruled in February that the state's ban on suicide assistance ads was an unconstitutional restriction on speech.
Please admit that in an issue of first impression by the courts, the Georgia Supreme Court (Cardinale v. City of Atlanta et al.
By WALTER C. JONES ATLANTA - Georgia's top court heard arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of a law passed to temporarily halt property assessment increases while homeowners coped with the recent recession and flood of foreclosures.

In Georgia, voters passed a similar referendum in 2004, and it was upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2006. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta told Catholic News Service that the institution of marriage "predates the church and predates the ...
By Matt Hennie | May 9, 2012 | 11:55 AM The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday disbarred a gay attorney who has represented David magazine and Southern Voice over allegations that he misused funds a client won in a lawsuit for his own personal use.
By AP Georgia's Supreme Court will review a Court of Appeals decision that found the city of College Park should collect occupational taxes at the Atlanta airport because the businesses, including the main terminal and parts of two concourses, ...
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court will consider a long-running feud over millions of dollars in taxes generated by Atlanta's busy airport.
That decision started a legal feud that's lasted almost a decade and led to an eye-popping $459 million penalty against the company that was the focus of arguments Monday before the Georgia Supreme Court. It started when American Home Services, ...

She was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1992 by Gov. Zell Miller and has since been returned to that bench by voters in 1994, 2000 and 2006.
by Staff Report The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the 2005 murder conviction of a Walker County man in connection with a road-rage incident.
The Georgia Supreme Court will consider a long-running feud over millions of dollars in taxes generated by Atlanta's busy airport.
By Joe Johnson - joe.johnson@onlineathens.com The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of a man who shot three other men during a craps game in West Athens nearly five years ago.
The Georgia Supreme Court today announced it would take on a long-standing tussle between the cities of Atlanta and College Park, over millions of dollars generated by airport businesses.
That decision started a legal feud that's lasted almost a decade and led to an eye-popping $459 million penalty against the company that was the focus of arguments Monday before the Georgia Supreme Court. It started when American Home Services, ...
She was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1992 by Gov. Zell Miller and has since been returned to that bench by voters in 1994, 2000 and 2006.
A Georgia Supreme Court ruling last year found local school boards have exclusive control of public education. Crane said that should not be so, since the state provides 50-80 percent of funding for schools.
He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, a decision the Georgia Supreme Court later affirmed in a 6-1 ruling. The lone dissent came from then-Justice Leah Ward Sears, who argued that prosecutors failed to prove McNeil wasn't defending himself.
He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, a decision the Georgia Supreme Court later affirmed in a 6-1 ruling. The lone dissent came from then-Justice Leah Ward Sears, who argued that prosecutors failed to prove McNeil wasn't defending himself.
He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, a decision the Georgia Supreme Court later affirmed in a 6-1 ruling. The lone dissent came from then-Justice Leah Ward Sears, who argued prosecutors failed to prove McNeil wasn't defending himself.
The Savannah dispute ended up before the Georgia Supreme Court, which ruled last November that Christ Church's $3 million property in the city's historic district belongs to the Episcopal diocese under its governing hierarchy and bylaws.
The Savannah dispute ended up before the Georgia Supreme Court, which ruled last November that Christ Church's $3 million property in the city's historic district belongs to the Episcopal diocese under its governing hierarchy and bylaws.
The charter battle came to this north metro county last year after the Georgia Supreme Court threw out a state law that gave the state charter creating authority.
11 after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled with them. As part of the agreement, the diocese filed dismissals of a motion for contempt filed in Chatham County Superior Court against the Anglican group as well as pending litigation against the former ...
The Georgia Supreme Court in February struck down as unconstitutional a previous law that outlawed the advertising of assisted-suicide services.
Photo: David Goldman / AP Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carol Hunstein attends a news conference where Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law a bill that will bring sweeping changes to the state's criminal justice system at the State Capitol ...
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Carol Hunstein, who served on the special council, praised enactment of the legislation.
A Houston County man, convicted of killing his aunt and uncle in 1989 when he was 16, is appealing his conviction to the Georgia Supreme Court. The state's high court is scheduled to hear Dwight Simmons' case next week. Willie B. and Bessie Lewis, ...
By BECKY PURSER - bpurser@macon.com WARNER ROBINS -- The Georgia Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments Monday related to a double homicide in Houston County in 1989.
The Georgia Supreme Court in February struck down as unconstitutional a previous law that outlawed the advertising of assisted-suicide services.
This big-ticket item is now under appeal before the Georgia Supreme Court. But thanks to a trial court judge who may have thrown his weight around one too many times - and perhaps an aging, poker-faced municipal attorney with one more ace to play ...
And last year a nearly unanimous Georgia Supreme Court endorsed its voter limitations. Every judge except the first African-American to sit on the Georgia Supreme Court bench approved restricting access to the polls. Thirty states will require voters ...
On Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the city's request to appeal a 2010 ruling by Judge Carl C. Brown Jr. that denied it protection from the lawsuit under the legal principle of sovereign immunity.
On Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the city's request to appeal a 2010 ruling by Judge Carl C. Brown Jr. that denied it protection from the lawsuit under the legal principle of sovereign immunity.
By DeAnn Komanecky The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled a confession by an Effingham County man to molesting a 4-year-old boy can be used against him at trial.
The Georgia Supreme Court denied a request to hear the challenge brought by ousted board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
A filing with the Georgia Supreme Court that was signed by Lee and Judicial Qualifications Commission director Jeff Davis said Lee was being investigated for allegations of judicial misconduct and that the matter is now concluded.
by From staff reports MARIETTA - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder convictions of three Cobb County men. The court upheld the convictions and life sentences of Rodger Jackson, Kevin Martin and Jesus Guerrero Manzano on Tuesday.
21 year old Shamoka Furman told police about 6:15 PM two black men came up behind her at the bus stopMore >> The Georgia Supreme Court upholds the murder conviction and life sentence of an Albany man, who beat a man to death with a hatchet.
By Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred Stone Mountain lawyer Xavier Dicks for abandoning a client. John Spink, jspink@ajc.
By Kyle Martin The Georgia Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a man convicted in the 2009 murder of Jone Cheung, who owned The House of Cheung King of Wings on Milledgeville Road.
AP ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of a man convicted of shooting a restaurant owner to death during a robbery in east Georgia in 2009.
AP The 68-year-old judge told The Daily Report (http://bit.ly/IgP2dr) he's planning to seek another term when his seat is up for grabs again in 2014.
21 year old Shamoka Furman told police about 6:15 PM two black men came up behind her at the bus stopMore >> The Georgia Supreme Court upholds the murder conviction and life sentence of an Albany man, who beat a man to death with a hatchet.
By Bill Rankin A lawyer on Monday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to do something it has not done in more than 30 years -- throw out a death sentence because it is so out of line with sentences imposed in similar cases.
The bill comes after the Georgia Supreme Court struck down the Georgia Charter schools Commission in a 4-3 vote last May, declaring the commission had no authority to create or fund charter schools over the objections of local school boards.
Charter school advocates need the amendment because in May 2011 the Georgia Supreme Court issued a decision saying only local boards of education controlled the right to create public schools.
By BECKY PURSER - bpurser@macon.com WARNER ROBINS -- The Georgia Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments Monday related to a double homicide in Houston County in 1989.
Ed Setzler (District 35), was passed in response to last February's decision by the Georgia Supreme Court that struck down the state's previous law that pro-lifers considered weak and ineffective.
Gov. Deal also signed HB 1114 sponsored by State Rep. Ed Setzler. The bill was passed in response to last February's decision by the Georgia Supreme Court that struck down the state's previous weak and ineffective law dealing with assisted suicide.


 


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