Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
On August 19, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which had halted a lower court’s order finding that the way in which Georgia elects its Public Service Commissioners was discriminatory. Specifically, the District...
Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
Previously we wrote about a candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Patty Durand, who faced possible removal from the ballot because her PSC district (District 2) was redrawn to exclude the county in which she resided less than one year before the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants have received relatively intense scrutiny by courts in recent years, as lawmakers seek to balance employers’ and employees’ respective rights—restrictive covenants acknowledge that employers invest time and monetary resources in their employees’...
Aug 24, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On August 23, the Department of Justice announced a Tennessee state representative and his former chief of staff were arrested at their homes on criminal charges of conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds; bribery and kickbacks concerning...
Aug 24, 2022 | False Claims Act
The Department of Justice just announced that Universal Helicopters Inc. (UHI) and Dodge City Community College (DC3) have agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act (FCA). It was alleged that UHI and DC3 falsely certified...
