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News Articles: Georgia Supreme Court

Lawmakers work in the House chambers during crossover day at the Georgia State Capitol on Monday, March 6, 2023, in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: The final day of legislative session; GA Supreme Court hears case on abortion law

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Today is Sine Die at the Legislature, the last day of the 2023 session. Our panel weighs in on what to expect and what the GOP majority has already passed. Meanwhile, state justices were skeptical of arguments made against Georgia's abortion law. The high court promised a swift opinion.

March 29, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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  • Health

Georgia Supreme Court hears arguments on constitutionality of state's abortion law

State Supreme Court justices heard arguments from both sides on Tuesday in a case that bring into question the constitutionality of Georgia's abortion law, which currently bans abortions past about six weeks of pregnancy. 

March 29, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia's Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs delivers the State of the Judiciary on March 8, 2023

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  • Law

Lawmakers: Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Boggs delivers the State of the Judiciary on Day 30

Georgia Senators and Representatives convened in a special joint session on Day 30 to hear Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs give his State of the Judiciary address. 

March 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
This image shows a part of the proposed Spaceport in Camden County, Ga.

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  • News

Georgia Supreme Court upholds local referendum opposing Spaceport Camden

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling verifying the validity of a voter referendum in Camden County last March that rejected plans to build a commercial spaceport.

February 07, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Abortion protest

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  • News

Georgia Supreme Court reinstates abortion ban

The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state's ban of abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

November 23, 2022
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  • Associated Press
The Georgia Supreme Court has weighed in on lawsuits fighting local governments’ decision to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces, including in Henry and Newton counties. Across Georgia more than 60 statues and other memorials were erected in courthouse squares, including in Appling County, left, and Coweta County right. Georgia Recorder file photos

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court hands supporters of Confederate statues in public squares partial setback

The Georgia Supreme Court just handed a mixed bag to supporters of keeping monuments commemorating the Confederacy on their historic courthouse lawn perches at public expense. 

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Megan Desrosiers holds the stack of petitions collected to force a referendum on the purchase of land for Spaceport Camden. Credit: One Hundred Miles

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court to weigh validity of Spaceport Camden vote

In 2019, spaceport opponents began collecting signatures. By December 2021, after the county had spent more than $10 million on the spaceport plan, petitioners reached their 10% goal, leading to a March 2022 referendum that blocked the plan. Now the state's high court is set to determine whether the vote will stick.

October 05, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Georgia Supreme Court

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Georgia attorney general, defense group clash over pandemic-era execution order

Georgia should be allowed to execute the longest-serving inmate on the state’s death row despite an agreement that capital cases would not move forward during the pandemic, a lawyer for the state argued Tuesday.

September 21, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
An illustration of the proposed Camden Spaceport site

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Georgia’s public referendum law at stake as spaceport fight reaches state Supreme Court

Union Carbide’s decision to back out of a land deal for a Camden County spaceport has sparked more lawsuits ahead of next month’s Georgia Supreme Court hearing of a challenge to a public vote that has scuttled the project for now.

September 20, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Kid getting vaccine

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Georgia Supreme Court orders lower court to reconsider sincerity of parents’ vaccinations objections

A juvenile court must reevaluate the sincerity of parents’ objections to their children’s vaccinations, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.  

August 24, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
The Georgia Supreme Court overturned Tex McIver’s murder conviction. He shot his wife, Diane McIver, as they drove home from a party in 2018.

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  • News

Atlanta prosecutors plan to retry man who shot wife in SUV

Prosecutors say they will retry an Atlanta man in the high-profile shooting of his wife after Georgia's Supreme Court recently overturned his murder conviction. The high court ruled last month that the jury should have had the option of convicting 79-year-old Claud "Tex" McIver of involuntary manslaughter, a misdemeanor charge.

July 22, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga.

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  • News

Georgia spaceport land deal is off, site owner says

The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a Georgia county seeking to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

July 22, 2022
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  • Associated Press
In this Oct. 3, 2016, file photo, Justin Ross Harris listens during his trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Georgia's highest court on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, overturned the murder and child cruelty convictions against Harris, whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours, saying the jury saw evidence that was “extremely and unfairly prejudicial.”

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Murder conviction overturned in Georgia hot car death case

Georgia's highest court has overturned the murder and child cruelty convictions against a man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours. The Georgia Supreme Court opinion released Wednesday says the jury saw evidence that was "extremely and unfairly prejudicial."

June 22, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Henry County Confederate monument

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Georgia Supreme Court takes up right to sue over removal of Confederate monuments

Legislation the General Assembly passed in 2019 authorized “any person, group or legal entity” to challenge any acts in violation of the law, which prohibited the desecration or removal of historic monuments from public property.

May 19, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a hearing, Friday, April 22, 2022, in Atlanta. Greene is appearing at a hearing Friday in Atlanta in a challenge filed by voters who say she shouldn't be allowed to seek reelection because she helped facilitate the attack on the Capitol that disrupted certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory.

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Georgia voters appeal decision on Rep. Greene's eligibility

A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility to run for reelection say they have appealed the Georgia secretary of state's decision that she can appear on the ballot.

May 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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