Six years after construction stopped on a failed effort to build an ice hockey rink near Sarasota, Fla., a Georgia judge has tossed out a suit by a construction company seeking $12 million from accounting firm Porter Keadle, which represented the man who planned the project.

Brunswick Superior Court Chief Judge Amanda F. Williams announced her retirement Monday, ending a wide-ranging ethics investigation by Georgia’s judicial disciplinary agency but leaving open the possibility that she could still face criminal charges.

In the first decision by the 11th Circuit extending a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on sex discrimination claims to protect transgender persons in the workplace, a panel ruled Tuesday that a transgender woman should be allowed to return to her job at the Georgia General Assembly.

In an order that includes an homage to the ’60s songwriter Arlo Guthrie and that, thanks to the Internet, has gone national, a Georgia judge has taken one of the nation’s largest banks to task in a foreclosure case, saying, “Sometimes, only the courts of law stand to protect the taxpayer.”

In an order that includes an homage to the ’60s songwriter Arlo Guthrie and that, thanks to the Internet, has gone national, a Georgia judge has taken one of the nation’s largest banks to task in a foreclosure case, saying, “Sometimes, only the courts of law stand to protect the taxpayer.”