Cedra Mayfield

A judicial misconduct probe launched against a Middle Georgia judge is proceeding toward an ethics hearing. The Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Hearing Panel has issued an order outlining next steps in its investigation of Chatham County Probate Judge Thomas C. Bordeaux Jr.

The former judge expressed gratittude for the "opportunity to practice law" again.

Sitting jurists are opening up about the impact former Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings-Moore had on both the court and their legal careers.

From tearful speeches to thunderous applause, members of Georgia's legal community expressed their gratitude for Georgia Court of Appeals Judge M. Yvette Miller during a recent retirement ceremony at the intermediate appellate court.

"Is it your read of Paragraph V, that Paragraph V expanded sovereign immunity to claims that it had never applied to before?," Presiding Justice Nels S. D. Peterson asked appellant counsel during oral arguments Wednesday.

"To allow a waiver as a result of an amendment would strain a court's discretion when the complaint is deficient in the first place," read an appellant brief filed on behalf of Cobb County governmental defendants.

"This committee will use data-driven methodologies to be innovative in exploring and discerning what regulatory reforms could address the issues preventing Georgians from receiving critical civil legal services without diminishing consumer protections," said committee chair Justice Carla Wong McMillian in a statement Thursday.

"[Our client] feels that she has helped send a message to businesses, especially in the medical field, of the need to maintain respect for the rights and dignity of transgender persons," plaintiff counsel with Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown told the Daily Report.

"What is the violation of your client's own rights?," Justice Andrew A. Pinson asked appellant counsel during oral arguments Tuesday.

"Is your argument that this act had not been enacted at the relevant time for your case?" asked Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren during oral arguments Tuesday. "Or is your argument that the text of the equitable caregiver statute is so vague that no reasonable person could ascertain that this is a mechanism for giving up parental rights?"