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April 01, 2026
DHL violated federal disability bias law by firing an employee who asked for a work assignment that wouldn't exacerbate her sickle cell disease, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Georgia federal court.
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March 31, 2026
Georgia lawmakers gave final approval to legislation that would allow state securities regulators within the secretary of state's office to force fraudsters to repay damages directly to investor victims.
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March 31, 2026
The former CEO of medical marijuana company Parallel, the scion to the Wrigley gum fortune, has, for now, beaten a lawsuit accusing him of lying about share prices to lure executive talent, with an Atlanta federal judge slamming the suit as "threadbare" and "devoid of even the most basic facts" about the company.
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March 31, 2026
Property owners don't need to have specific knowledge of a sex trafficking victim's exploitation to be complicit in their forced prostitution, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, in the process reviving claims against two Atlanta-area hotels where three teenage girls were allegedly forced into sex work.
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March 31, 2026
Parents on Monday asked a Georgia federal judge to grant them an early win in their copyright infringement suit against an Atlanta media company over their children's content on social media and streaming sites.
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March 31, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission is the latest venue to take up InterDigital's globe-spanning dispute against Chinese TV manufacturers Hisense Co. Ltd. and TCL Technology Group Corp., claiming the companies are importing TVs from the U.S. that infringe InterDigital's video coding patents.
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March 31, 2026
A county prosecutor in Georgia has been suspended from her role in the district attorney's office after filing a document that contained fabricated case citations reportedly caused by generative artificial intelligence amid a criminal defendant's bid for a new trial following a criminal murder conviction, according to a letter prosecutors filed Tuesday.
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March 31, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday denied a request from environmental nonprofits to allow a lower court's order halting operations of a Florida immigrant detention facility, saying in a split decision that new issues were improperly raised for the first time.
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March 31, 2026
A Georgia federal judge freed the city of Atlanta and its former inspector general from a lobbyist and city contractor's suit accusing them of illegally issuing subpoenas for the lobbyist's bank records to bolster a frivolous corruption probe.
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March 31, 2026
A Georgia county fire battalion chief is not entitled to overtime under federal wage law, a federal judge ruled, finding that his salary and job duties qualified him for a statutory exemption.
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March 31, 2026
Executives and board members at a mechanical engineering company defeated a class action claiming top brass were illegally compensated for helping refinance an employee stock ownership plan, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that workers hadn't shown that management concealed the shares they owned.
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March 30, 2026
An Atlanta-area law firm has accused a Nevada litigation funder of using cloak-and-dagger methods and an "attorney turned corporate mole" to steal the firm's toxic tort trade secrets, only to make a "heel turn" and play the victim by suing the law firm last year.
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March 30, 2026
Spartan Securities and other defendants sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged penny stock fraud petitioned the Eleventh Circuit Monday for a full court rehearing of a panel decision affirming a $1 million judgment in favor of the SEC.
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March 30, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has ordered a proposed class of General Mills factory workers who say they were subjected to years of racist abuse to rewrite and condense their complaint with the goal of avoiding the "prospect of unbridled fishing expeditions" as the suit goes on.
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March 30, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Airbus America of bias and retaliation from a Black former manufacturing engineer, saying that even though he established a "prima facie case of race discrimination and retaliation," he didn't show the company lacked a legitimate reason for his termination.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a former Quest Diagnostics Inc. compliance officer's bid for review of the dismissal of a long-running False Claims Act suit against the medical testing company.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the dismissal of a bias suit from a former aide to Atlanta's district attorney, an appeal that turns on whether the district attorney's office should've been allowed to argue that her position was exempt from anti-discrimination law.
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March 27, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into a pivotal moment for private credit, industry perspective on undervalued multifamily markets and a look at the litigation over immigration detention center projects.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia federal judge appeared skeptical Friday of Fulton County's efforts to recover hundreds of boxes of 2020 election ballots that were seized by the FBI in a January raid on a county warehouse, signaling he wasn't sure whether the government had shown "callous disregard" for the Constitution.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia state appellate court on Friday kept alive the Energy and Policy Institute's lawsuit alleging the Georgia Public Service Commission and one of its commissioners violated the state's public records law, affirming a lower court ruling.
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March 27, 2026
An Oklahoma National Guard member told a Georgia federal court his business partners violated federal law by trying to boot him from their company after he was called up for duty and by starting a new venture when they couldn't get rid of him.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia appellate court must reconsider its opinion that Uber was required to collect and remit millions in sales taxes on behalf of drivers and customers who used its app before the Wayfair decision, the state's highest court said.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed more than $116,000 in penalties against two Georgia countertop manufacturers, after inspectors found workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica — an issue identified in previous investigations — and noise hazards.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia federal court granted final approval Friday to United Bank Corp.'s $2 million class action settlement ending allegations that it unlawfully ousted ex-workers from an employee stock ownership plan and cut them out of proceeds from a $23.3 million dividend.
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March 26, 2026
A group of environmental and faith-based organizations have sued Georgia's elected utility regulators challenging a more than $15 billion deal with Georgia Power approved last year to increase the capacity of the state's largest electricity provider by nearly 50%.