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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.

The firm represented the owner of a company which merged with defendants’ company.  The parties executed a Stockholder’s Agreement which contained a buy/sell provision providing that any of the merged company’s shareholders could offer to purchase another shareholder’s shares at a certain price.  The recipient of the buy/sell had 90 […]

Temple Sinai congregant Josh Belinfante has been saturated in Georgia and its politics since birth. The great-nephew of Ernest Barrett – longtime chairman of the Cobb County Commission and the man for whom Barrett Parkway is named – got at least one healthy dose a night as a kid.

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.