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Vote to block Georgia spaceport upheld by state's high court

Georgia's highest court has upheld an election in which residents of a coastal community voted to block their county government from building a launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space

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Groups push Georgia lawmakers to completely ban abortion

ATLANTA — Drawing a slightly smaller crowd than in previous years, anti-abortion advocates gathered outside the Georgia Capitol on Friday to stress that last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade was not enough — they want a total ban on abortion.

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Surviving Home Invaders May Be Charged with Murder After Resident Shot and Killed One of Them in Self-Defense

Atlanta TV station 11alive (Addie Haney) reports: Police now believe four people were involved in a shooting in east Atlanta's Gresham Park neighborhood and that it started as an attempted home invasion. One person has since died in connection to the shooting, according to police…. At this time, police said…

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Two Georgia Supreme Court orders jostle pre-runoff landscape

ATLANTA — A pair of one-page orders by the Georgia Supreme Court jostled the political landscape days before the Dec. 6 runoff between Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

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Georgia reinstates 6-week abortion ban

"It is outrageous that this extreme law is back in effect, just days after being rightfully blocked"

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Georgia's highest court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks

A lower court's decision had prohibited enforcement of the abortion ban statewide. Seven of the state's nine justices agreed to let the ban go into effect.

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Georgia high court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks

The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy

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Georgia high court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks

The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

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Georgia Supreme Court upholds Saturday voting in US Senate runoff

ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal by the Republican Party that sought to prevent early voting on Saturday in the runoff for U.S. Senate.

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Georgia Supreme Court orders state’s abortion law back into effect during legal process

ATLANTA — Georgia’s 2019 abortion law that restricts the procedure once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity will be back in effect during the legal process, the state Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday.

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Republicans try to stop Saturday voting in Ga. Senate runoff

Republican groups have filed an appeal with Georgia’s highest court in an attempt to prohibit early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker

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State asks Georgia Supreme Court to allow enforcement of abortion law

ATLANTA — Attorneys representing Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reverse a Superior Court ruling released earlier this week that blocked enforcement of the state’s anti-abortion law.

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Justices allow suit against Confederate monument removal to go forward in Georgia

A Newton County woman’s lawsuit against her county’s planned removal of a Confederate monument in downtown Covington can go forward, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

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Tex McIver denied bond ahead of 2nd murder trial

ATLANTA — Facing a murder trial for the second time in his wife’s 2016 shooting, Claud “Tex” McIver was denied bond Friday by a Fulton County judge who expressed concerns that McIver was a flight risk.

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Tex McIver seeks bond after overturned murder conviction

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver is hoping to be released from jail following the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to overturn his murder conviction in his wife’s shooting death.

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Georgia Supreme Court on Sincerity and Religious Exemptions

An unusually detailed discussion of what factors court should consider in deciding whether a religious exemption request is sincere (generally a threshold requirement for the request to stand any chance of prevailing).

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2022 Music Midtown festival canceled; decision linked to state gun laws

ATLANTA — This year’s Music Midtown festival, a showcase event slated to bring tens of thousands of people and big-name artists to Piedmont Park over two days in September, was canceled Monday in part due to the state’s laws surrounding guns in public parks.

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Georgia abortion providers take challenge of ban on procedure to state courts

ATLANTA — Less than a week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s restrictive abortion law to go into effect, activists and providers have taken their challenge of the statute to state court.

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Confession of Error

In the Georgia Supreme Court's decision Thursday in Slosberg v. Giller, the question was whether a "no contest" clause in a will or trust could be challenged on the grounds that the clause itself was the product of undue influence: Georgia law permits a settlor or testator to include in…

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Georgia Supreme Court overturns McIver murder conviction

ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday granted a new trial for Claud “Tex” McIver, a former Atlanta lawyer who was convicted of his wife’s murder.

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Georgia man has murder conviction for leaving son to die in a hot car overturned

Justin Harris left 22-month-old son in backseat of car in suburban Atlanta for seven hours

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Georgia Supreme Court tosses Harris’ murder conviction in hot car case

ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris, who was tried for leaving his son in a hot car.

The Independent UK

Georgia high court won't hear appeal from death row prisoner

Georgia’s highest court on Wednesday declined to hear an appeal filed for a man on death row claiming that his execution would be unconstitutional because he has cognitive impairments that cause him to function like a young child

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Families of victims upset at delay in Georgia execution

The families of two girls who were abducted and attacked 46 years ago by a Georgia man who was scheduled to be put to death last week say they’re “deeply upset and disappointed” that the execution was halted by a judge

The Independent UK

Lawyers: Georgia man's death sentence is unconstitutional

Lawyers for a Georgia man whose execution was put on hold by a judge this week are arguing in court filings that he is ineligible for execution because of his cognitive impairments

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