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Corrections
Monday, August 25, 2008
It was misreported that Winston Peterson was the former sheriff of Clinch County. Peterson is the current sheriff.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Aug. 12 story “Clayton's woes play into incumbent losses” misreported that Tracy Graham-Lawson was recruited by Clayton County Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell to run for district attorney against the incumbent, Jewel C. Scott. Graham-Lawson, who won the election, said she was not recruited by Bell.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Aug. 12 story, “Cy pres awards under scrutiny,” written by the Daily Report's sister publication, the National Law Journal, should have quoted Ted Frank as saying, “If you want to have cy pre, have cy pres. But attorney fees shouldn't be based on it. Those should be based on what you won for the putative class.”
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
The Aug. 6 story, “Smith Gambrell entangled in hedge fund scandal,” should have mentioned that the bankruptcy trustee for International Management Associates, who is suing the law firm and a former lawyer, is represented by Robert E. Shields, Everette L. Doffermyre, Samuel W. Wethern and Sheryl L. McCalla of Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
A reference to the Mall of Georgia in the July 28 special section on commercial real estate misidentified the location of the shopping complex. It is located in Buford.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
A July 25 article on the Georgia Committee for Ethical Judicial Campaigns misidentified Jeremy T. Berry, a co-chairman of the group, as a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge. He is an associate at the firm.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
A July 9 story about the Brian Nichols trial misreported Judge James Bodiford's age as 59. He is 58, with a birthday in August.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
The July 8 “In Recess” column on golf and heat exhaustion misstated Dr. Kurt R. Horst's position at the Athens Regional Medical Center. He is medical director of Emergency Medical Services there, not of the entire center.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
A July 2 story about a copyright ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Greenberg v. National Geographic, No. 05-16964, misidentified a 2nd Circuit judge sitting by designation in a 2007 opinion of the case called Greenberg II. The judge was U.S. District Judge David G. Trager of the Eastern District of New York, not Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York. The article also erroneously stated that in his dissent to the latest Greenberg decision, issued June 30, U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. dismissed the majority opinion in the case as “histrionic speculation.” Birch was referring to arguments made by amici.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
A June 12 story and sub-headline about an online pharmacy ordered to pay the Federal Trade Commission $15.8 million misreported how much Terrill Mark Wright, a doctor associated with the pharmacy, was ordered to pay. The doctor was ordered to pay $15,454—not $15.4 million. The story also reported the wrong case number of the matter. The case, in the Northern District of Georgia, was FTC v. National Urological Group et al, No. 1:04-cv-3294-CAP.
The article also listed former corporate officer Michael Howell among the defendants. Howell settled separately with the FTC in 2005 in an order that did not hold him liable for the full amount of the damages to consumers in return for his cooperation with the FTC.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Associated Press, relying on information from the prosecutor, erroneously reported that co-defendant Tony Taylor will be tried on July 26. The court administrator says his trial date will be set on July 22.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Due to incorrect information provided by the firm, the weekly pay listed for Bondurant Elmore & Mixon's summer associates in the chart on page 6 of the June 2 special section was inaccurate. The firm pays summer associates $2,800 a week. Also in that issue, the last word was dropped from a cutline on page 2. It should read: "James Woodward declined an offer to work at the firm where he summered two years. As the head of Miller & Martin's summer program, he acknowledges the importance of the right match."
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Friday, May 30, 2008
The Newsreel item on May 30, “Perdue names new executive counsel” misreported that Gov. Sonny Perdue's former top lawyer, Judson Turner, used to work for the U.S. Department of Education. Turner worked for the state Department of Education.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
An April 21 story, “11th Circuit hears appeal in 1998 school bus stop felony murder case,” mistakenly reported that a felony murder conviction of a 15-year-old carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison or the death penalty. Defendant Jonathan Miller received a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. According to a brief by state Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker in this case, Miller was too young when he committed the crime to be eligible for life without parole or the death penalty.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The April 16 article on John C. Childs, the chief counsel for litigation at Georgia-Pacific LLC, misstated the number of employees at the company. The correct number is 50,000.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The April 16 article, “11th Circuit tackles trademarks, Internet” misstated where an article about Internet trademark law appeared. Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law, by Eric Goldman, appeared in the Emory Law Journal—not the Emory Law Review. The complete citation is Eric Goldman, Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law, 54 Emory Law Journal 507 (2005).
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