On the Rise awards will spotlight up-and-coming, young Georgia lawyers – those under 40. The deadline for nominations is also Friday, June 8, and the On the Rise nominating form is here.
It’s one of those unspoken Southern social rules; one just does not treat one’s Masters tickets like a commodity. If shared at all, the coveted passes to Augusta National are gifted only to a business associate first, then perhaps to a friend or family member.
Standing out alongside the road hawking one’s Masters tickets? Inconceivable. Yet it happens, and Augusta takes the re-selling of Masters tickets matter very seriously – going so far as to assign narcotics agents to work undercover during the tournament to assist in ferreting out the ill-mannered.
According to the August Chronicle, selling and buying of Masters tickets was so prevalent this year that more than 30 cases of “disorderly conduct” associated with the tickets landed on the desk of Harry B. James, the solicitor for the Richmond County Magistrate Court. And other than the case of one senior seller, a Jasper B. Sojourner of Port St. Lucie, Fla., James has said to all the others so charged… see you in a Georgia courtroom.
The newspaper reports: “As for the others with outstanding cases, James said they will have to show up in Magistrate Court next week if they intend to fight the charges. He said it didn’t matter that some lived as far away as Canada and California.
“‘If they don’t show up the judge can issue a bench warrant or they can forfeit their bond,’ he said.”
Emory law professor, Frank Alexander, is part of an exhaustive Frontline four hour series on the global financial crisis. Alexander appears in the segment about Atlanta neighborhoods taking the brunt of the subprime lending meltdown, starting around 9:40 into this clip.
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Post-midnight debris left on desks after Sine Die 2010.
It’s Sine Die (“Without Day”) at the Georgia General Assembly, the last day of the legislative calendar. Today is a bill’s last stand – it either passes or goes away until some other year.
I hear the clock has been known to magically turn itself back as the midnight hour approaches, but that particular legislative activity has never gone viral on YouTube. Not yet at least.
If you can’t slog it out in person at the Gold Dome there are many ways to follow the action, live, from your desktop. Watch the Senate/House live feeds, although the feeds are notoriously useless once too many people get on and clog up the pipes.
Twitter hashtags to use for streams are: #golddome and #gapol.
And Andre Walker has a live blog going right up to end-game: Click Here.
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Arguments for and against upholding Georgia and Alabama’s new immigration laws, HB 87 and HB 56 respectively, were heard today at the United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
According to Sam Brooke of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who was challenging the states’ laws, attorneys for both sides were asked many thoughtful questions from an informed appeals panel over the course of several hours.
“The court seemed very engaged, very interested,” Brooke told the Daily Report afterwards.
He said that the court announced it will not issue any decision regarding today’s arguments until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Arizona’s immigration law. An argument in that case is set for April 25.
More pictures from the scene outside the 11th Circuit during and after today’s arguments can be found on our Facebook page.
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