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Atlanta business group sues MLB for moving All-Star Game Job Creators Network, a conservative organization that represents small businesses, is suing Major League Baseball for moving the July All-Star Game out of Atlanta. In a 21-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, Job Creators Network seeks the return of the game to the Georgia capital, $100 million in damages to local and state small businesses, and $1 billion in punitive damages. The group referred to events that caused the league’s decision, including Republican Georgia Gov. B...

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Michael S. Abrams its chief financial officer. In alignment with the company’s succession plan, Abrams joins Arch’s financial team in the role previously held by Richard Davis. Davis will remain with the company during a transition period, which will end on June 30, after which he will support the company in a consulting role through Dec. 31. Abrams has more than 25 years of experience as a chief financial officer to numerous public and private companies; principal investor; investment banker; merchant banker; strategic and financial adviser; and board member. His capabilities span a br...

By Butler Snow LLP issued the following announcement on Apr. 15. Butler Snow attorney Scott K. Field is set to present at the Texas Aggie Bar Association’s 22nd Annual Conference on Saturday, April 24. In the presentation titled “Judges are People, Too—What Lawyers Can Learn from Challenges to Judicial Mental Health,” Field will discuss his six years as a judge, the toll the role of a judge can have on a judge’s mental health, and what lawyers can learn from those challenges. More information about the conference can be found here. Field is a member of the firm’s Appellate ...

Texas court tosses sentence of state's longest-serving death row inmate   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the sentence of the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Raymond Riles has been on death row in Texas since 1976, despite being deemed mentally incompetent to be executed multiple times. On Wednesday, the court remanded the 70-year-old’s case to Harris County, Texas, for resentencing, since the jury wasn’t instructed to consider his mental illness when deciding his punishment. “We’re very pleased,” Thea Posel, one of Riles�...