Written by Firm | Mar 24, 2015 | Press
The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by a county commissioner. Commissioner Liz Hausmann filed the lawsuit in 2013, saying Ferdinand abused his authority by revoking the registration of a vehicle she owned. Hausmann said the […]
Written by Firm | Mar 9, 2015 | Press
Developers and a consultant who helped create a residential community on the site of an infamous housing project must pay nearly $1 million in damages and attorney fees to a woman who claimed she was illegally cut her out of her fees for her work in helping put together the […]
Written by Firm | Dec 16, 2014 | News
In one of his first public speaking engagements since being elected to the Senate last month, David Perdue on Tuesday told a gathering of mostly conservative Georgia lawyers that judges “shouldn’t create law.” Perdue’s remarks came at a lunch meeting of the local lawyers’ chapter of the Federalist Society, held […]
Written by Firm | Aug 10, 2014 | News
The legal showdown between the Fulton County Commission and the Georgia General Assembly over the county’s vote to raise property taxes, laid out in two suits challenging the actions, has been simmering since last year when the Legislature voted to cap the tax rate until 2015. On Wednesday, the same […]
Written by Firm | Aug 8, 2014 | News
A judge has ruled the group that holds the title on the building at Peachtree and Pine Streets in Midtown Atlanta where hundreds of men, women and children bed down nightly can start the court process to evict the Task Force for the Homeless because it had not made a […]
Written by Firm | Aug 6, 2014 | News
If recently leaked campaign strategy memos are to be believed, U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is looking to Georgia lawyers as a pillar of her bid for Congress. Names of lawyers from various practice areas are sprinkled throughout the 144-page bundle, which contain documents from staff and consultants outlining the […]
Written by Firm | Jun 3, 2014 | News
The legal saber-rattling over the attempt by Center for Discovery to convert a home on Manget Way in Dunwoody into a treatment center for girls with eating disorders ramped up in the last week. The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals was scheduled to hear the appeal Tuesday of Manget Way […]
