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From Amin v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, decided today by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood (S.D. Ga.): NBC published multiple reports about allegations that Plaintiff, Dr. Mahendra Amin, performed mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Georgia. NBC reported allegations that Dr. Amin performed hysterectomies…

U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled August 19 in favor of Georgia after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinded a Medicaid waiver for the state’s Pathways to Coverage program. Georgia brought the lawsuit after CMS under the Trump administration approved the state’s Section 1115 application for…

Federal judge gives father and son life for hate crime; their neighbour and co-defendant sentenced to 35 years.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The man who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery was sentenced Monday to life in prison for federal hate crimes convictions involving the 25-year-old’s slaying.

Arbery's killing on Feb. 23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people.

ATLANTA — The three men convicted of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder will face a federal judge Monday to learn their sentences in the hate crimes case over the 25-year-old’s slaying.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The man who chased down and fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery sent messages to friends with “a theme of Black people being less than human,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Eight white people, three Black people and one Hispanic person have been chosen to serve as jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of three men convicted of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Thirty potential jurors were qualified on Monday, the first day of jury selection in the federal hate crimes trial for the three men convicted of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder.