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News Articles: Georgia Supreme Court

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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  • 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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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
Clarence Henderson (center), apprehended in 1948 for a murder he likely did not commit.

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Georgia Today: The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson

In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.

February 25, 2022
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
David Nahmias, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, makes his State of the Judiciary address to the Georgia General Assembly on Feb. 8, 2022.

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  • Politics

Lawmakers: Georgia's chief justice addresses the legislature on Day 13

Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice David Nahmias gave his first State of the Judiciary address to the General Assembly.

February 08, 2022
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  • Brenda Waters
Crawford County Courthouse

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Georgia’s high court suspends Crawford County judge for grabbing defendant

The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ordered that Crawford County’s chief magistrate be suspended one month without pay for his role in a physical altercation with a handcuffed, shackled defendant who the judge grabbed after the defendant cussed the judge in court in December 2020.

February 01, 2022
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  • Joe Kovac
Judge Jesse Stone

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  • Politics

Georgia Supreme Court upholds judicial appointment

The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court decision denying a challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp’s appointment of former state Sen. Jesse Stone to a judgeship in Augusta.

December 15, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Georgia Supreme Court

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  • Law

Lobbying group dubs Ga.'s top court a 'hellhole' for perennial business-friendly tort push

The American Tort Reform Association, which lobbies on behalf of corporate civil liability interests, ranked Georgia’s Supreme Court as the third worst “judicial hellhole” in the country for 2021. The group is advocating for new state legislation it claims could save residents and businesses billions. 

December 13, 2021
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Plant Scherer in Monroe County

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  • Environment

Sierra Club appealing coal ash ruling to Georgia Supreme Court

Georgia Power plans to excavate and remove the ash from 19 ponds and close the other 10 ponds in place. Lawyers for the Sierra Club have argued the PSC failed to take into account Georgia Power’s culpability in creating the coal ash problem to begin with, and thus should not be allowed to pass all of those costs onto customers. 

December 08, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Judges gavel

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Georgia Supreme Court rules on ACLU defamation lawsuit

In the case of ACLU, Inc. v. Zeh, the court reversed the state Court of Appeal’s decision affirming the trial court’s denial of the ACLU’s motion and remanded the case to the Court of Appeals with the direction that it send it back to the trial court to rule on Zeh’s discovery motions. 

October 19, 2021
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  • Tim Darnell
Georgia Supreme Court

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court Going Back To Remote Oral Arguments

Word that the high court was going back to online proceedings came less than a week after Verda Colvin was sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice during a live ceremony inside the state Capitol and two months after the court resumed conducting in-person hearings at the nearby Nathan Deal Judicial Center.

August 06, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
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