ATLANTA - Thousands of marchers stormed the Georgia Capitol on Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law, which they say creates an unwelcome environment for people of color and those in search of a better life. Men, women and children of all ages converged on downtown Atlanta for the march and rally, cheering speakers while shading themselves with umbrellas and posters. Capitol police and organizers estimated the crowd at between 8,000 and 14,000. They filled the blocks around the Capitol, holding signs decrying House Bill 87 and reading "Immigration Reform Now!
A Claim of Lien is an encumbrance against real property created by state law for the purpose of securing payment for labor, materials or services expended to improve that property. In Georgia, lien laws were enacted in the early 1800s to provide protection for masons and carpenters. The statute has been modified a number of times since then and now extends to cover a wide variety of persons, including, among others, registered architects and engineers, contractors, subcontractors, materialmen, suppliers and others who provide labor, materials or services. Georgia, like many other states, has developed statutory procedures for identifying potential lien claimants at the start of the construction work. To be effective, a copy of the Notice of Commencement must be posted at the project sit...
A state law prohibiting anyone from offering to assist another in committing suicide violates the First Amendment, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment. A state law provides that any person "who publicly advertises, offers, or holds himself or herself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in the commission of suicide and commits any overt act to further that purpose is guilty of a felony." Violation of the statute is punishable by imprisonment for one to five years.
A Georgia collections law firm with a St. Louis office has agreed to pay $267,000 in a class action lawsuit over allegedly unpaid overtime. Lisa Pezzani filed the lawsuit against Frederick J. Hanna & Associates, claiming the collections law firm did not pay her and others overtime wages when she worked as a collector in its St. Ann office during 2007 and 2008.
While his peers were awaiting college acceptance letters, Genarlow Wilson, once a promising athlete with a 3.2 grade point average, waited to be released from prison.
Civil liberties groups say they've filed a lawsuit to block Georgia's law cracking down on illegal immigration. An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said the groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking class-action status. The lawsuit names Gov. Nathan Deal and several other state officials as plaintiffs.
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