Georgia Education Law
C.B. et al. v. Henry County School District
Atlanta, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an ndividuals with Disabilities Education Act violation theory. C.B. is a student with Down syndrome who attends school in the Henry County School District in Georgia. Because C.B. has Down syndrome, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act required Henry County to develop an individualized education program ... More...
$ (02-21-2026 - GA)Janelle Quinn v. Columbia County School District
August, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a education civil rights violation theory.<br> <br> Quinn filed this suit in April 2022. In her complaint, she set<br> out two claims: racial discrimination under Title VI ("Count Oneâ€),<br> and retaliation under Title VI ("Count Twoâ€). Importantly, Count<br> One was brought on behalf of D.J.Q. and Count Two was brought<... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - GA)Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdost Board of Education, et al.
<h2><br> Vadosta, Georgia civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a job discrimination theory.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Rodemaker filed his first lawsuit, Rodemaker I, in federal court in April 2020. It named as defendants the five black members of the Valdosta Board of Education - Warren Lee, Liz Shumphard, Tyra Howard, Debra Bell, and Kelisa Brown - in<br> heir individual capac... More...
$0 (08-05-2024 - GA)<h1> United States of America v. Lennen Pacheco Colon </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Rome, Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant a former Cherokee schoolteacher and her husband sentenced for child pornography offenses</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> <b><h2><center><i> Middle District of Georgia</h2></center></i></b><br> <br> <br> A Calhoun man who distributed images of child sex abuse and his wife, a... More...
$0 (12-15-2023 - GA)Jessica Blinkhorn v. 101 Center Real Estate, LLC
Savannah, Georgia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an Americans with Disabilities Act Violation theory.<br> <br> "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including employment, education, transportation, and public accommodations.<br> <br> The A... More...
$1 (09-12-2023 - GA)James McCoy v. J&M Tank Lines, Inc.
Albany, Georgia civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory.<br> <br> The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local governm... More...
$1 (07-12-2023 - GA)United States of America v. Stefan Zappey
Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually abusing elementary school students on a U.S. military installation in Germany.<br> <br> Stefan Zappey sexually abused four of his former elementary school students between 2006 and 2010. At the time, Zappey was a teacher for first through third grade students at an elementary school in Germany. The school is part... More...
$0 (05-02-2023 - GA)United States of America v. Dara Buck, a/k/a Dara Butler
Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/georgia/news/savannah/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Savannah</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Stewart was indicted for leading a prolific fraud schem... More...
$0 (01-09-2023 - GA)United States of America v. Sandra Anderson, et al.
Columbus, Georgia criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud financial institutions.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/georgia/news/columbus/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Columbus</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> <br> From around August 2010 through May 2018, defendants created and ... More...
$0 (12-16-2022 - GA)United States of America v. De'roek Banks
Atlanta, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.<br> <br> De'reek Banks was accused of operating a scheme that caused approximately $48,000,000 in outstanding federal student loans to be fraudulently discharged by exploiting a program intended for disabled military veterans. Banks illegally pocketed about $891,000 in payments from more than 500 student loan borrowers. Ma... More...
$0 (08-23-2022 - GA)United States of America v. Darrell Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud and to money laundering for masterminding a scheme to obtain 14 fraudulent loans totaling approximately $11.1 million from the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPPâ€). To date, a total of twenty-three individuals have been charged in connection with the fraudulent scheme. <... More...
$0 (05-20-2022 - GA)United States of America v. Alston Orlando Leroy Williams
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a <br> sex trafficking charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Deborah was 16 years old when she first met Alston Williams.1<br> She had dropped out of high school and was pursuing her GED; she lived with her father, <br> but her home life was complicated. That's when a friend, Marilyn, ... More...
$0 (11-09-2021 - GA)Stewart J. Smith v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with this lawsuit in federal district court against the United States, proceeding under the Federal Tort Claims Act claiming the Department of Veterans Affairs (the "VAâ€) breached their legal duty to exercise ordinary medical care and negligently failed to diagnose his throat cancer and immedia... More...
$0 (11-09-2021 - GA)United States of America v. David Lynn Roberson, et al.
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy, bribery (aiding and abetting); honest services wire fraud (aiding and abetting); and money laundering conspiracy charges. </h2></font></b></i></center>, <br> <br> Joel Gilbert ("Gilbertâ€), a partner at Balch & Bingham LLP ("Balchâ€), and <br> David Roberson ("Roberso... More...
$0 (10-13-2021 - GA)United States of America v. ALSTON ORLANDO LEROY WILLIAMS
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a sex trafficking of three women charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> For over a decade, Alston Williams used a grotesque combination of <br> physical abuse and emotional manipulation to force vulnerable young women to <br> work for him as prostitutes. He was eventually charged a... More...
$0 (09-12-2021 - GA)STEWART J. SMITH v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, Georgia - Medical Malpractice lawyer represented defendant with claiming various medical professionals negligently failed to diagnose his throat cancer and immediately treat it. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The VA provides medical care to veterans through the Veterans Health <br> Administration ("VHAâ€). The Secretary of Veterans Affai... More...
$0 (09-10-2021 - GA)United States of America v. ALSTON ORLANDO LEROY WILLIAMS
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a sex trafficking three women charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Deborah was 16 years old when she first met Alston Williams.1<br> She had <br> dropped out of high school and was pursuing her GED; she lived with her father, <br> but her home life was complicated. That's when a frien... More...
$0 (08-11-2021 - GA)STEWART J. SMITH versus UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with proceeding under the Federal Tort Claims Act. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> In 2018, Mr. Smith, a veteran, initiated this lawsuit in federal district court <br> against the United States, proceeding under the Federal Tort Claims Act <br> USCA11 Case: 20-11365 Date Filed: 07/29/2021 Page... More...
$0 (08-11-2021 - GA)United States of America v. Denis Onderi Makori
Atlanta, Georgia email fraud charge criminal defense lawyer representing Defendant, Denis Onderi Makori who was indicted on charges relating to a business email compromise (BEC) scheme targeting a Pennsylvania university and allegedly defrauding it out of more than $2 million. <br> <br> "Business email compromise schemes pose a severe risk of financial loss to public and private institutions alike... More...
$0 (04-21-2021 - GA)United States of America v. Edward “Eddie” Okenica
Atlanta, GA - Criminal Law, Buy or Selling Children<br> <br> <center><br> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Atlanta_GA_FED.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> The United States of America charged Edward “Eddie” Okenica with production of child pornography.<br> <br> Edward “Eddie” Okenica, who exploited dozens of girls online for his own sexual gratification... More...
$0 (09-20-2020 - GA)United States of America v. April Thornton
<center><br> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Albany_GA_Fed-2.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Albany, GA - The United States of America charged April Thornton, age 35, with student financial aid fraud scheme, stealing the identities of 2,300 people, has been sentenced to prison and will pay back more than $300,000 in restitution.<br> <br> According to facts a... More...
$0 (09-01-2020 - GA)Gerald Lynn Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
Sometimes small gestures can have unexpected consequences. Major initiatives practically guarantee them. In our time, few pieces of federal legislation rank in significance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There, in Title VII, Congress outlawed discrimination in the workplace on thebasis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Today,we must decide whether an employer can fire someones... More...
$0 (06-15-2020 - GA)Elly Marisol Estrada v. Mark Becker
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.gand.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/banner_image/public/slider-image/RBR_modified.jpg?itok=6Y9xy9q8"><br> </center><br> <br> This case is about a Policy1 that the Georgia Board of Regents (“Regents”) set. The Policy requires Georgia’s three most selective colleges and universities to verify the “lawful presence” of all the students t... More...
$0 (03-06-2019 - GA)United States of America v. Isaac J. Culver, III
Macon, GA - Jury Finds Isaac J. Culver, III And His Company Guilty Of All Charges For Scheme To Defraud Bibb County School District<br> <br> Isaac J. Culver, III, age 48, Lizella, Georgia, and his corporation, Progressive Consulting Technologies, Inc. (PCTI) were found guilty by a jury of his peers for conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, ten (10) counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud... More...
$0 (07-31-2018 - GA)United States of America v. Lucrezia Finch Henderson
Newman, GA - Court Shuts Down Georgia Return Preparer<br> <br> A federal court in Newnan, Georgia permanently enjoined Lucrezia Finch Henderson from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Henderson to mail a copy of the injunction order to all customers for whom she prepared a return after January 1, 2015.<br> <br> According... More...
$0 (06-06-2018 - GA)United States of America v. Betty McLain
Savannah, GA - Uvalda Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty To Filing False Tax Returns<br> <br> On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, Betty Mclain, 66, pled guilty to aiding and assisting the preparation of a false tax return before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen, Jr. <br> <br> According to the evidence presented at the plea hearing, Mclain operated Betty’s Tax Service next to her home in Uvalda,... More...
$0 (05-31-2018 - GA)Jim Barrett v. Walker County School District
Control the clock and control the game. Winning coaches in many sports have employed this strategy.1 And Plaintiff-Appellee Jim Barrett asserts that the lesson wasn’t lost on Defendant-Appellant Walker County School District, either. To speak at a Walker County Board of Education meeting, the District requires a member of the public to first go through a process that can consist of several steps... More...
$0 (10-02-2017 - GA)Donald Mikko v. The City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al.
When Donald Mikko was hired by the Atlanta Police Department as the<br> director of its crime lab, he negotiated a contract that allowed him to perform<br> forensics consulting work for private parties in his spare time. After a Georgia<br> district attorney learned that Mikko had written an expert report for and planned to<br> testify in Florida on behalf of the defense in a criminal case, the di... More...
$0 (05-30-2017 - GA)United States of America v. Queen Adeboyejo
Former Bibb County Public Schools Employee Pleads Guilty To Student Loan Fraud<br> <br> Queen Adeboyejo, age 64, of Perry, Georgia entered a guilty plea in federal court in Macon to Student Loan Fraud on March 15, 2017 before the Honorable Leslie Abrams, United States District Judge. Through her plea, Ms. Adeboyejo admitted that she obtained federal student loans fraudulently by using the personal... More...
$0 (03-15-2017 - GA)Jameka K. Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, Charles Moss, et al.
Jameka Evans appeals the sua sponte dismissal of her employment discrimination complaint, filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., in which she alleged that she was discriminated against because of her sexual orientation and gender non-conformity, and retaliated against after she lodged a complaint with her employer’s human resources department. We have carefully reviewed the Appellant’s ... More...
$0 (03-14-2017 - GA)United States of America v. Andrea R. Williams
Newman, GA - Newnan Woman Sentenced for Financial Aid Fraud and Identity Theft<br> <br> Andrea R. Williams was sentenced to six years and seven months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to file dozens of fraudulent federal student aid applications.<br> <br> “Williams stole the identities of dozens of innocent victims, using them to file fr... More...
$0 (02-24-2017 - GA)<b>TYE v. THE STATE OF GEORGIA</b>
In 2008, Cortez Tye was convicted of and sentenced for felony murder<br> and related crimes stemming from a carjacking.1 Tye now appeals his<br> convictions and sentences and the superior court’s 2014 denial of his motion for<br> new trial, as amended, in which the remaining stated issue was Tye’s assertion<br> that the judge who conducted his trial erred in declining to hold a hearing on th... More...
$0 (11-19-2016 - GA)State of Georgia v. Richard Luedee
Lawrenceville, GA - Defendant For Threatening To Mutilate His Wife<br> <br> The State of Georgia charged Richard Luedee with kidnapping, terroristic threats, aggravated assault, family violence/battery and influencing a witness. The State charged by the Defendant struck his wife multiple times, took her to a hotel against her will, and threatened to mutilate her face or engage in murder suicide.<... More...
$0 (10-22-2016 - GA)Jesse James Warren v. The State of Georgia
Jesse James Warren has been indicted on four counts of murder and many<br> additional charges in connection with a mass shooting at a Penske Trucking<br> Company location in Cobb County on January 12, 2010, in which four victims<br> were killed and a fifth victim was paralyzed. The State has given notice of its<br> intent to seek the death penalty. On March 4, 2013, Warren filed a special plea<b... More...
$0 (10-19-2015 - GA)T.P. v. Bryan County School District
This appeal arises under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act<br> ("IDEAâ€), 20 U.S.C. § 1400–1482. It concerns the request by the parents of T.P.,<br> Case: 14-11789 Date Filed: 07/02/2015 Page: 1 of 20 <br> 2<br> a child with autism and speech and language disabilities, that their son's school<br> district pay for an independent educational evaluation ("IEEâ€) of T... More...
$0 (07-02-2015 - GA)Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners
At the time this suit commenced, no African-American candidate had ever been elected to either the Fayette County Board of Commissioners (BOC) or the Fayette County Board of Education (BOE) in Fayette County, Georgia. The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten individual African-American registered voters residing in Fayette County (collectively, App... More...
$0 (01-07-2015 - GA)Christina Nicole Adams and Christopher L. Adams v. Laboratory Corporation of America
Christina and Christopher Adams ("the Adamsesâ€) filed a lawsuit against Laboratory Corporation of America ("LabCorpâ€), alleging that its cytotechnologists were negligent in failing to identify abnormalities in Ms. Adams's Pap smears and that this negligence caused a delay in her cancer diagnosis. LabCorp moved to exclude the testimony of Dr. Dorothy Rosenthal concerning the alleged bre... More...
$0 (07-29-2014 - GA)Sakari Jarvela v. Crete Carrier Corporation
Many Americans suffer from alcoholism. Sakera Jarvela, a commercial truck driver, is one of those individuals. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations prohibit anyone with a "current clinical diagnosis of alcoholism†from driving commercial trucks. Jarvela's employer, Crete Carrier Corporation, contends that it maintains a company policy that prohibits it from employing anyone who has... More...
$0 (06-18-2014 - GA)United States of America v. Dr. Najam Azmat
DR. NAJAM AZMAT, 57, of Waycross, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury on last week of all charges relating to his role the running of East Health Center, a pill-mill clinic that operated in Garden City in 2011. United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. presided over AZMAT's five-day jury trial. AZMAT was found guilty of conspiring to dispense oxycodone and other drugs with... More...
$0 (01-22-2014 - GA)Solomon Sims, Jr. v. MVM, Inc.
This is an Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 ("ADEAâ€) case. See 29 U.S.C. §621 et seq. Solomon Sims, Jr., claims that his former employer, MVM, Inc., discriminated against him on account of his age when it terminated his employment. MVM defended its decision by denying that Sims' age, 71, was the reason for his discharge; rather, he was separated due to a reduction in force ("R... More...
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