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FPC, Law Professors, and Georgia First Amendment Foundation File Amicus Brief Arguing that Lawful Businesses Should Not be Liable for Harms Caused by the Businesses’ Adversaries
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an important amicus brief with the Georgia Court of Appeals in McBrayer, et al. v. The Governors Ridge Property Owners Association, Inc., et al. The brief, authored and filed by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh and Georgia attorney Darren Summerville, with the help of UCLA law student Madison Way, is available at FPCLegal.org.
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Georgia Recorder
Annual legislative suppers, breakfasts to start session with digital socializing
The Wild Hog Supper that is a signature legislative session kick-off event and major fundraiser for the Georgia Food Bank Association is cancelled for 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Gov. Brian Kemp addresses the large crowd of influential leaders during the supper. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder
The COVID-19 pandemic means changes to some of the signature annual events that typically mark the start of a new legislative session as lawmakers return to the state Capitol this week.
Often the governor and other top state leaders kick off their legislative agenda at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s breakfast at the Georgia World Congress Center. The nonprofit group Georgians for a Healthy Future annually makes its case for expanded access to health at venues near the Capitol. These two are among several groups that advocate for state policies moving their signature even
Atlanta Magazine
Yes, it’s legal to record a phone call in Georgia without telling the other person
Donald Trump’s hour-long chat with Brad Raffensperger highlighted a detail in Georgia’s law
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger used Georgia’s “single-party consent” law to record his phone call with President Donald Trump.
Photograph by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
One of the latest hairpin turns in the rollercoaster ride that is Georgia’s dual Senate runoff race took place this past weekend when the outgoing president of the United States spent an hour on the phone with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, regurgitating conspiracy theories and exhorting the state’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn the November election. That call now has been heard around the world, following the recording’s release to the
More often than not, it is the fine print in the work of lawmakers that threatens government transparency the most.Â
Assaults on the publicâs right to know are generally not found in bill captions or in what representatives and senators call their respective bills.Â
No one sponsors a piece of legislation and calls it Stripping Away the Publicâs Right to Know.Â
In fact, the greatest dangers are often found not in the main body of a bill, but in the amendment attached to it, the fine print.Â
It is common for amendments to be tacked on to bills at the last minute, coming out of nowhere. The vast majority of amendments are relatively benign. Others, unfortunately, are not.Â