Mom, Apple Pie, and Georgia Constitutional Amendments

As voters in Georgia go to the polls starting this week for early voting and continue to vote by absentee ballot, voters will be asked to consider three amendments to the Georgia constitution. Georgia’s constitution has been amended 87 times since Georgians adopted...

COVID-19 Delays Opioid Bellwether Trial Until 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in trials across the country, beginning in March 2020 and continuing into 2021.  A long-awaited trial in federal court in West Virginia is the latest addition to that list.      An eagerly anticipated bellwether trial in...

PAYING RANSOM COULD LEAD TO FINES

On October 1, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments announcing that companies that “facilitate” ransom payments on behalf of ransomware victims may be...