/georgia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Georgia Copyright 2025 ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ. en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:55:15 +0000 /georgia/articles/2361209?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2361209 States were allocated their share of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program two years ago. Some states were nearly ready to announce which companies would receive a slice of the funding and exactly how much they would get when President Donald Trump's administration shook things up in early June by rescinding all the awards. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:22:45 +0000 /georgia/articles/2361155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2361155 Experian can arbitrate a customer's lawsuit alleging it failed to reasonably ensure the accuracy of her credit files after a fraudulent $26,922 car loan was reported, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday, finding Experian provided competent, unrebutted evidence of her agreement to arbitrate after enrolling in credit-monitoring services with its affiliate.  Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:15:42 +0000 /georgia/articles/2361154?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2361154 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insight into this week's reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act, how states are approaching energy demand for data center projects, and where the commercial and residential real estate sectors stand at the midyear. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:25:30 +0000 /georgia/articles/2359811?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2359811 British competition officials said this week that they were beginning their initial evaluation of Global Payments Inc.'s plans, unveiled earlier this year, to purchase payments giant Worldpay from GTCR and FIS for $24.25 billion. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:10:25 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360899?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360899 A Georgia federal judge handed an early win Wednesday to a man who said he was one of several detainees tortured by former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, ruling that the "conditions are all met" to decide the civil rights claims based on Hill's criminal convictions. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:30:14 +0000 /georgia/articles/2354744?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2354744 It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:12:44 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360694?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360694 The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:02:36 +0000 /georgia/articles/2332681?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2332681 Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:01:45 +0000 /georgia/articles/2358316?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2358316 A Third Circuit panel set to examine the constitutionality of a judicial safety law born out of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge's son is tasked with what experts are viewing as a lesser-of-two-evils choice: chilling free speech or chilling public service. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:16:29 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360386?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360386 The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:09:59 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360220 The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:27:04 +0000 /georgia/articles/2359849?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2359849 Federal prosecutors in Atlanta have charged four North Korean nationals with stealing and laundering nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from a pair of companies after lying about their backgrounds to gain employment with American and European firms. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:37:38 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360729?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360729 The Eleventh Circuit refused to revive a discrimination suit by former Disney employees over the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and augmented protocols requiring unvaccinated workers to socially distance and wear masks, ruling Wednesday the appellants never made religious objections to those protocols and never sought religious-based accommodations.  Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:25:09 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360712?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360712 A Delaware judge awarded $55 million in damages Wednesday to Tyson Foods Inc. arising from its $866 million acquisition of poultry rendering plants in Georgia and Alabama, finding after trial that American Proteins Inc. concealed past recycling of slaughter wastewater sludge and fraudulently induced the deal. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:14:09 +0000 /georgia/articles/2359458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2359458 A Georgia woman has been indicted for allegedly organizing a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program out of more than $5.4 million, according to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:45:00 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360468?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360468 CoastalSouth Bancshares Inc. began trading Wednesday after the South Carolina- and Georgia-focused bank priced a downsized $44 million initial public offering at the bottom of its range, represented by Alston & Bird LLP and underwriters' counsel Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:34:37 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360394 A former Georgia worker for construction materials manufacturer Sto Corp. accused the company in a Tuesday disability discrimination lawsuit of showing him the door after he was hospitalized with a heart condition. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:44:32 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360236?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360236 There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, Law360 looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:07:42 +0000 /georgia/articles/2359493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2359493 Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:34:39 +0000 /georgia/articles/2360390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /georgia/articles/2360390 The company that owns and franchises restaurant chains like Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin' and Jimmy John's has been sued in Georgia federal court by an ex-employee who alleges she was fired after threatening to report a manager for discrimination.