Global Atlanta
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The Manely Firm, P.C. is a full service all family law firm serving clients all around Georgia and all around the world. The firm s focus is on complex family law cases to include domestic and international divorce, custody, parental kidnapping, modification, high asset divorce, reproductive rights and family law appeals. We have multiple offices in Metro Atlanta and Savannah. The Firm has offered quality family law representation for over 30 years. Founding Attorney Michael Manely has the distinction of being the only all family law attorney to win unanimous decisions before both The United States Supreme Court and The Supreme Court of Georgia. Savannah s Supervising Attorney and Partner, David Purvis, argued a case regarding the legitimacy of children born of IVF before the Georgia Supreme Court. The firm offers a legal team of experienced attorneys, paralegals and client care coordinators to pursue resolution for family legal matters with a
A Time for Courage on the Supreme Court | Opinion O. Carter Snead
, Professor of Law and Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the University of Notre Dame On 5/20/21 at 6:30 AM EDT
Brown v. Board of Education and the precedent overruled was
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which for 58 years had allowed states to engage in separate but equal discrimination on the basis of race.
On May 17, 2021, the Court agreed to hear a dispute regarding a younger line of precedents namely,
Roe v. Wade (1973) and
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) that has for many decades forbidden states from extending the basic, fair and equal protection of the law to every member of the human family, born and unborn. By granting certiorari in
The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in
Badgerow v. Walters, No. 20-1143 on May 17, 2021. The question presented is “[w]hether federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the [Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”)] where the only basis for jurisdiction is that the underlying dispute involved a federal question.”
In
Vaden v. Discover Bank, 556 U.S. 49 (2009), the Supreme Court held that a federal court, in reviewing a petition to compel arbitration under Section 4 of the FAA, may “look through” the petition to decide whether the parties’ underlying dispute gives rise to federal question jurisdiction. Alan Kaplinsky and Martin Bryce of Ballard’s Consumer Financial Services group successfully represented the defendant in the District Court and the Fourth Circuit with respect to that issue. The text of Section 4, which states that petitions to compel arbitration may be