Recent decisions by the Georgia Supreme Court denying two law school grads the right to take the state bar exam highlight the need to tell the whole truth — and not just when applying for admission to the Bar. In each case, certificates of fitness to practice law were denied partly due to omissions on law school applications.

In a swift and unanimous decision, the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday green-lighted medical malpractice claims against a psychiatrist over his reduction of medication to a mentally ill patient in the months prior to the patient killing his mother.

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment does not preclude a false statements conviction of a man who created an online murder mystery game with clues that matched the circumstances of actual missing persons cases.

In a victory for local school boards that had challenged a 2008 law creating an alternative mechanism for the approval of charter schools, the Georgia Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional a law that authorizes a state commission to approve charter schools.

Defense arguments received some favorable reception from the Georgia Supreme Court in a case involving a man who used facts from a real case to create his Web-based, interactive murder mystery game.