Education Law

Georgia State Bar Board of Governors Concerned About Effect of the GREAT Plan
As you may know, I am a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Board of Governors, the governing body over Georgia's 38,000 lawyers. We, the Board of Governors, recently held our Mid-Year meeting here in Atlanta, and one item on our agenda was the GREAT Plan, HR 900, the new tax plan being proposed by the Speaker of the House, Glenn Richardson, a Republican State Representative from Paulding County...

$3,000,000 Verdict Against Ford in Georgia for Defective Seat Backs
The Atlanta Constitution Journal reported on December 13, 2007, that a Cobb County, Georgia jury handed down a $3,000,000 compensatory damage verdict against Ford Motor Company because of defective seats in a 1994 Ford Tempo that resulted in the death of a 76 year-old lady...

CNN Focuses on Georgia (Again)
I watched CNN?s coverage of Super Tuesday last night, and what I learned, mostly, is that Georgia is the key to the whole thing. CNN went IN-DEPTH in their analysis of voting in the Peach State, nearly to the exclusion of talking about anything else...

Impact of McCain & Obama Tax Plans on Single Women
Glamour: Tax Plans And The Single Girl, by Megan Carpentier: In the end, despite the stereotype that my taxes should go up under a Democratic tax plan and down under a Republican, it seems that Obama's tax plan is most...

Dzyuba v. Mukaasey (9th Cir. - Aug. 25, 2008)
Let me offer some additional help -- beyond that provided by the Ninth Circuit earlier today -- to the BIA on remand.As recent events should have made crystal clear, the former republics of the USSR aren't all the same country...

Essentialist Masculinity And Single Sex Education
Apropos of the Times Magazine article yesterday, Teaching Boys and Girls Separately, my colleague David Cohen has a paper up on SSRN entitled No Boy Left Behind? Single Sex Education and the Essentialist Myth of Masculinity...

Traditional and Roth 401Ks
Selecting the right Retirement Plan

H&R Block Retirement Plan Fraud
How to Join Class Action Suit

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.

Bunn-O-Matic
Recalls Single Cup Tea/Coffeemakers

GNG Marketing Violations
Georgia Natural Gas to pay customers $2.5 million in settlement.

Department of Education Fraud
$4.25 million settlement to be paid in whistleblower lawsuit.

Racist Voicemail
Stamford Board of Education pays student $37,500 settlement after failing to protect her from racial discrimination.

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.