Written by Firm | Feb 25, 2013 | News
Gov. Nathan Deal has suggested he’ll suspend six of the nine members of the DeKalb’s troubled school board on Monday, but whether his decision will stick is another story. Hearings are scheduled in state and federal court this week over challenges to a law that gives Deal the power to […]
Written by Firm | Jan 30, 2013 | Updates
The firm represented BLD Productions, LLC, a production company which had contracted with Remote Productions, Inc. (an affiliate of VH-1) regarding a concert in VH-1’s Divas series. BLD agreed to make Aretha Franklin available for the performance, and granted Remote Productions exclusive control over the audio and video distribution of […]
Written by Firm | Jan 9, 2013 | News
The almost half-decade long fight for the Crum & Forster building brought together lawyers for the Georgia Tech Foundation (GTF), private citizens who believe the City of Atlanta is bypassing its own preservation regulations, as well as outside counsels for both the City and the City’s Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) to Fulton County […]
Written by Firm | Jan 6, 2013 | News
A federal judge has halted enforcement of a Georgia law requiring employer-funded health benefit plans to pay employee claims in as little as 15 days. U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction Dec. 31 enjoining amendments to the state’s 14-year-old “prompt […]
Written by Firm | Aug 24, 2012 | News
Six years after Greenstone Properties and MetLife bought Lakeside Office Park, City Council approved rezoning of the property for a mixed-use development, in a split vote decided by Mayor Eva Galambos – and a lawsuit is settled. Still, perhaps no one is completely happy, as Councilman Gabriel Sterling said, before […]
Written by Firm | Aug 12, 2012 | News
A jury has found that Fulton County owes more than $327,000 in unpaid rent to the former landlord of the Fulton County Public Defender office at the corner of Trinity and Pryor. Now the county is fighting off a move to collect nearly $76,000 in attorney fees that the landlord, […]
Written by Firm | Jun 29, 2012 | News
Governor Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens are calling on Congress to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care law after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt Georgia and other opposing states a blow by upholding the individual mandate and other provisions of the law.
