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Liquor magnate and two-time Democratic congressional candidate Roger Kahn has sued his former attorney and accountant for $7 million, claiming they are responsible for a 2008 federal court verdict that cost him more than $6 million.

The day after U.S. District Judge Vinson ruled the individual mandate of the new healthcare reform law to be unconstitutional, the New York Times in its lead editorial switched gears. Though many commentators had previously characterized the constitutional challenge as bordering on frivolous, the Times on Feb. 1, 2011 conceded that the basic challenge to the individual mandate is based on “principled arguments” that “will likely be decided by the Supreme Court.”

Thanks to a Fulton County Superior Court judge’s decision, a developer will get to build a contested commercial project in East Roswell. But the leader of a large homeowners association that opposed the project is unhappy the Roswell City Council is not battling for them in court.

The conservative comeback in the House of Representatives, coupled with loud threats by Senate Republicans to repeal recently enacted national health-care reform legislation, promises to give new life to the long-standing debate over allowing health insurance companies to sell policies across state lines.

A developer filed a lawsuit Oct. 13 against Roswell saying the city council’s decision to enforce the current zoning on a 9.7-acre tract on Holcomb Bridge Road had rendered it “economically unviable.”

Richard L. Robbins, the founding partner of RobbinsFreed in Atlanta, says he took a risk last year when he offered a job to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s executive counsel, Joshua B. Belinfante.

A day after Georgia Court of Appeals Presiding Judge G. Alan Blackburn announced his intention to retire on June 30, the three candidates who had announced their intention to seek his seat in November are circumspect as they wait to see whether Gov. Sonny Perdue will move to appoint a successor or let the matter be decided by the voters.