R. Robin McDonald
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Atlanta, GA, United States
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Reality Winner Asks Judge To Commute Sentence After Fellow Inmates Test Positive for COVID-19
The former NSA contractor is serving a 63-month sentence for leaking a document to an online media publication. → Read More
GeorgiaCarry Sues to Force Fulton Probate Judge to Resume Issuing Gun Licenses During COVID-19 Pandemic
John Monroe an attorney for GeorgiaCarry.Org said that a decision to suspend the issuance of weapons carry licenses for handguns as a nonessential service is a Second Amendment violation. → Read More
Juror Zero: How COVID-19 Spread Through the Dougherty County Courthouse
Twenty-three courthouse employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after an infected juror sat on a murder trial. → Read More
Dougherty Probate Judge Nancy Stephenson Dies After Contracting COVID-19
Her husband, a state court judge who also tested positive for the coronavirus, remains in quarantine. → Read More
Federal Judge Permits Troubled Sterilization Plant to Resume Full Operations
Shut down over ethylene oxide emissions last year Sterigenics was allowed to temporarily resume sterilizations of personal protective equipment about 20% of its former business. Plant lawyers said that wasn't enough and a federal judge agreed. → Read More
Chief Justice Issues Multiple Orders to Lower Courts to Reduce Personal Appearances
The orders followed a plea to the state's judicial leaders calling on them to refrain from holding hearings requiring in-person appearances. → Read More
As COVID-19 Spreads, Public Defender Council Urges Courts to Curtail Lawyers' Personal Appearances
As the novel coronavirus began spreading through the Fulton County Jail last week the executive director of the state Public Defender Council urged some courts across the state that were still requiring lawyers to appear in person at criminal hearings to substitute video or teleconferencing. → Read More
COVID-19 Forces Ga. Supreme Court to Schedule Its First Virtual Court Sessions
Although the chief justice's statewide judicial emergency declaration is slated to expire April 13, the high court bench, except for the chief justice, will hear arguments from home beginning April 20. → Read More
Health & Habeas: A Constitutional Crisis Is Quietly Brewing Amid Coronavirus Chaos
On one hand attorneys are relieved. They say court closures minimize their own exposure to the coronavirus. But on the other a gnawing worry tempers that relief. → Read More
Eleventh Circuit Restricts Courthouse Entry, Suspends Paper Filings
The order comes as states and the federal government try to outrace the spread of the novel coronavirus. → Read More
Call for Nominations: The National Law Journal's Pro Bono Hot List
The 2020 Pro Bono Hot List will highlight law firms that do well by doing good. → Read More
Senator Claims Trump’s Judicial Picks ‘Instructed’ to Evade 'Brown v. Board' Questions
Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-Connecticut suggested the four nominees had obviously been instructed to avoid answering whether Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided. → Read More
Atlanta's Emmet Bondurant Crafted Legal Challenge to NC Gerrymandering
Bondurant said he found the seeds of a viable constitutional claim against partisan gerrymandering in an argument put forth by Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2004. → Read More
With Elections Over, Voter Suppression Lawsuits to Push Forward
Democrat Stacey Abrams promised her organization will file a lawsuit as early as next week to reform what she called “gross mismanagement” of an election that left her about 17000 votes shy of a mandated runoff. That would join seven other pending election lawsuits. → Read More
Federal Judge to Hear Arguments Over Nov. 6 Paper Ballot Proposal
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg will hear from academics cybersecurity experts and public officials during an all-day hearing over whether the state should use paper ballots during the midterm elections. → Read More
Reality Winner Reaches Plea Deal With Government Over Leaked Document
The mother of U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner says her daughter intends to enter a guilty plea next week after more than a year in jail without bond. → Read More
Judge Shuts Down Accused Leaker’s Defense Over Subpoenas Linked to 2016 Election Hacking Document
The team has petitioned Chief Judge Randal Hall of the Southern District of Georgia to reverse an April 28 decision blocking the subpoenas. → Read More
Tex McIver Jury Calls it a Week—Without a Verdict
Jurors deliberating the fate of former Fisher & Phillips partner Tex McIver said they were going home at 4 p.m. apparently changed their minds then changed them back. At 4:10 p.m. the jury said buh-bye. → Read More
Jury May Also Consider Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Against McIver
When Atlanta attorney Tex McIver was first arrested he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. A county grand jury later elevated those charges to murder. → Read More
State Rests Murder Case Against Tex McIver After 16 Days of Testimony
After he was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct over the fatal shooting of his wife Tex McIver told a longtime Atlanta media consultant that he could share a success bonus with the county district attorney. → Read More