Bloggers aiming to subject their enemies to flaming rhetoric should take note of three six-figure verdicts from Georgia courts in the past 15 months in favor of plaintiffs who said they were defamed on the Internet.

A Georgia Supreme Court ruling that the theft of about $95 in scratch-off lottery tickets fell under a lottery tampering statute will make it easier to prosecute bigger lottery crimes, according to the winning lawyer in the case. Curtis Lee Doe’s attorneys argued that Doe should have been charged with misdemeanor theft instead.

The Georgia judge who brandished a gun in court has announced his retirement. Judge David E. Barrett allegedly pulled a gun out from under his robe during a hearing on Feb.

An ad agency is suing former presidential candidate Herman Cain and the publisher of his biography, claiming that its copyright of the book’s cover photo has been infringed.

The White House and Georgia’s U.S. senators may agree that Atlanta lawyers Jill Pryor and Mark Cohen should be federal judges — but they apparently differ on which lawyer should fill an opening at the 11th Circuit and which should serve on Atlanta’s U.S. District Court.